Passaic News

Read this article as it originally appeared Aug. 29, 2019 on northjersey.com Passaic County Technical Institute in Wayne is not your average high school. Its 3,700 students spend much of [ Read More: From northjersey.com: Inside PCTI: North Jersey students share why they chose tech over their local high school ]

Passaic County Technical Institute celebrated the commencement of 48 licensed practical nurses from their day and evening LPN programs. “The graduates of the LPN program have successfully demonstrated their steadfast [ Read More: PCTI Celebrates Graduation of LPN Class of 2019 ]

 ATLANTIC CITY — The 8th Annual County Vocational-Technical School Cook-Off Challenge took place on May 10 during the New Jersey Association of Counties conference in Atlantic City. This year’s [ Read More: Student Chefs Wow County Officials at 8th Annual Cook Off ]

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 ]