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Vocational and technical education a viable option

A Pennsylvania state education commission report released in December indicated that… A Pennsylvania state education commission report released in December indicated that vocational and technical education is underfunded and stigmatized. The report reveals what many people already knew: that a four-year college education is often seen as the only way to financial success.

The problem is that the stigma often attached to vocational and technical education needlessly prevents students and their parents from considering the option.

The stigma is undeserved. While vocational and technical school students are often stereotyped as the

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