As part of her high school education, Jasmine Walden is working in a nursing home. These days, she said she finds the opportunity she got with a certified nursing assistant program at Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School “gratifying.” But it wasn’t always that way.
“I never saw myself as helping older people,” she said at the Digital Harbor Foundation’s tech center. “Where I come from you never see children working in a position where I’m in.”
Walden was among a group of students and educators assembled at the Federal Hill tech center on Wednesday to talk to U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr., and other Obama administration officials about Career and Technical Education (CTE).
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