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Information
for Counselors
Tech-Prep is a perfect opportunity
to fine tune career counseling. It is a Texas Scholars option, but it
is also designed to aid the forgotten majority--the median student for
whom there are few programs. Tech-Prep is also designed to aid special
populations.
- By the year 2030, between
30-40 percent of the Texas workforce will be dropouts.
The Texas Challenge by Steve Murdoch
- For every college graduate
there are three individuals who did not finish high school.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
- For every 100 students in
the fifth grade, 99 will enter grade nine, 88 will enter grade eleven,
76 will graduate from high school, 47 will enter college, 24 will earn
bachelor's degrees, and approximately 32 percent of those graduates
will have jobs related to their major fields of interest.
The National Center for Education Statistics
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