Promoting Technology Education

The Council has been promoting technology education for over a decade.

At the K-12 level, the Council’s education and lobbying efforts have been focused on integrating technology into the classroom and on ensuring consistent funding strategies for technology education from federal and state sources.  The Council supports the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) pipeline.

At the public higher education level, the Council has been an active supporter of the Commonwealth Information Technology Initiative (CITI). Launched in December 2000 by the Board of Higher Education and led by the University of Massachusetts, CITI is designed to improve and expand information technology education across the Commonwealth’s public higher education system.

The Council supports the full implementation of CITI and encourages partnerships between the private sector and public job training agencies to allow CITI to proceed with its programs.