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October 22, 2018

SkillsUSA Names 3M’s Maureen Tholen as Chair of the SkillsUSA Foundation

Helps Improve Quality of Nation’s Future Workforce Leesburg, Va., Oct. 22, 2018 — Maureen Tholen, sustainability director for 3M’s Industrial Business, and Safety and Graphics Business Groups, has been named…

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October 03, 2018

WorldSkills USA Will Go for Gold in Kazan, Russia, at Global Trade Skills Competition

Competitors will represent the United States against the greatest young talents in the world Leesburg, Va. — SkillsUSA today revealed 22 young competitors who will represent the…

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September 28, 2018

SkillsUSA Team Visits Rep. Krishnamoorthi During WLTI

National student leaders (left to right) Guadalupe Cortez, Adam Cavanaugh and Brooke Gatchell met with Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) in his Capitol Hill office Sept. 25, 2018, as part of…

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August 22, 2018

Forbes Cites Top 25 Two-Year Trade Schools; SkillsUSA Chapters Among Them

For the second year, Forbes magazine has ranked the nation’s top two-year trade schools, in a list of technical and career colleges with high-earning alumni, stand-out graduation and retention rates,…

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August 21, 2018

SkillsUSA Prepares the American Workforce

 WorkingNation Produces a New Mini-Documentary about SkillsUSA for its “Do Something Awesome” Series Leesburg, Va. — SkillsUSA is the subject of a new mini-documentary produced by WorkingNation for its “Do Something…

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August 02, 2018

President Reauthorizes Perkins Career and Technical Education Act

SkillsUSA celebrates President Trump’s signing of H.R. 2353, the “Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act,” which officially reauthorizes the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act,…

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July 17, 2018

Former SkillsUSA Board Member Scott Stump Named Assistant Secretary for OCTAE

The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) and Advance CTE released the following joint statement in response to Scott Stump’s confirmation as assistant secretary for the Office of Career,…

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June 30, 2018

Secretary of Education Tours SkillsUSA Championships in Louisville

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was in Louisville on June 28, touring the SkillsUSA Championships with Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin and Lt. Gov. Jenean Hampton. SkillsUSA executive…

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May 31, 2018

Dirty Jobs, Good Pay

Experts testifying before Congress don’t typically start by describing the insights they’ve gained from a backed-up toilet. But when Reality TV star Mike Rowe appeared before the Senate committee on…

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