Passaic News

This article originally appeared April 2, 2019 on NBCNews.com By Sarah Gonser The Hechinger Report WAYNE, N.J. — Jalal Abaza has a 3.9 GPA and loves fixing broken things. He’s [ Read More: From NBC News: How New Jersey turned vocational schools into sought-after academies ]

This originally ran on CBS 3 Philadelphia on February 23, 2019. CAMDEN, N.J. (CBS) – Young chefs were sizzling Saturday at a South Jersey cooking competition, and with a college [ Read More: From CBS 3 Philadelphia: Young Chefs Compete In New Jersey ProStart Competition ]

Passaic County Technical Institute (PCTI) has been named a Blue Star School by W!se (Working in Support of Education), a program which prepares students for the future by teaching them [ Read More: PCTI Students, Teachers Honored by National Financial Literacy Organization ]

The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) has honored Passaic County Technical Institute’s Director of Curriculum, Ted Szczawinski, as the Region I CTE Administrator of the Year. The award [ Read More: PCTI’s Ted Szczawinski is ACTE Region I Administrator of the Year ]

See the story on the NJ101.5 web site. By Dino Flammia Renewing efforts to prepare its students for the 21st century workforce, New Jersey has announced another $3 million for [ Read More: From NJ101.5 news: NJ Vo-tech schools adding these high-demand fields ]

Cybersecurity, health professions, digital media and even heavy equipment operations will be among the seven new programs offered through New Jersey county vocational-technical school partnerships next fall, thanks to $3 [ Read More: State grants provide new career and technical education options at county vocational-technical schools ]

A team of Passaic County Technical Institute (PCTI) culinary arts students has won the 2018 New Jersey state ProStart championship. Later this year, they will represent the state at the [ Read More: PCTI culinary arts students win ProStart state championship ]

Two Academy of Finance instructors at Passaic County Technical Institute (PCTI) have been honored with the W!se (Working in Support of Education) Gold Star Teacher Awards. Julissa Borbon, of Woodland [ Read More: PCTI Teachers win financial literacy honors ]

International corporations, local businesses, regional health care systems, the carpenters union, the U.S. Army and even an ice sculptor are among the organizations and individuals honored as 2017 business partners [ Read More: Business Partners Honored by County Vocational Technical Schools ]

Junior Achievement of NJ (JANJ) has honored Mark Cacace, the school to careers coordinator at Passaic County Technical Institute (PCTI), as one of the organizations’ three Educators of the Year. [ Read More: Junior Achievement of New Jersey names PCTI’s Mark Cacase as Educator of the Year ]