Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education

Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education Type: Administrative and Support Agencies Parent organization: U.S. Department of Education Employees: Not publicly specified Executive: Assistant Secretary Budget: Not publicly specified; part of the U.S. Department of Education's budget Address: 400 Maryland Ave SW, Washington, DC 20202 Website: https://sites.ed.gov/octae Creation Legislation: None specified; part of the Department of Education's organizational structure Wikipedia: Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education

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Mission To help adults acquire the basic skills to be productive workers, family members, and citizens. OCTAE supports programs that provide career and technical education, adult education, and community college initiatives to prepare individuals for high-skill, high-wage, or high-demand careers.

Services Adult education; career and technical education; community college support; teacher development;

Regulations

The Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) formerly Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) is a subdivision of the United States Department of Education. OCTAE falls under the supervision of the Undersecretary, who oversees policies, programs and activities related to vocational and adult education, postsecondary education, college aid and the President's financial reforms for the Pell Grant program.

OCTAE's director has the rank of Assistant Secretary and serves as the principal adviser to the Secretary of Education on matters related to high school, career technical and adult education and lifelong learning as well as community colleges, workforce and economic development. He or she also represents the Department at national and international meetings related to vocational and adult education. The Office administers, coordinates, and recommends policy for improving quality and excellence of programs related to the Office's focus areas.

OCTAE's programs fall into four general areas:

• Adult education and literacy, represented within OCTAE by the Division of Adult Education and Literacy (DAEL)
• Career and technical education, represented within OCTAE by the Division of Academic and Technical Education (DATE)
• Community colleges
• Correctional and re-entry education

Programs under DAEL include the Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS), launched in 1994 and transferred to the authority of OCTAE in 2010, which encourages adult literacy.

See also

• Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations

Sources

• OCTAE home page at https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ovae/index.html

External links

• Agency Listing at AllGov
• "Office of Vocational and Adult Education: Who is Brenda Dann-Messier?" - AllGov
• "U.S. Department of Education Awards Two Blanket Purchase Agreements to Kratos" - Fox Business
• "First Report on Online Occupational Education in Community Colleges is Released by National CTE Research Center" - Sys-Con Media
• "Class Acts" - News Telegram
• "Wonderlic General Assessment of Instructional Needs (GAIN) Assessment Approved by U.S. Department of Education" - TMC News