The California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant (CTEIG) program is established as a state education, economic, and workforce development initiative with the goal of providing pupils in kindergarten through grade twelve, inclusive, with the knowledge and skills necessary to transition to employment and postsecondary education. The purpose of this program is to encourage and maintain the delivery of career technical education (CTE) programs. Education Code (EC) sections 53070–53076.4
The recipients of the CTEIG funds are required to implement and maintain a CTE program meeting all of the following high-quality CTE program requirements:
2019-2020 awardees can be seen at https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fo/r17/cteig2019-20.asp.
California Department of Education will give the greatest positive consideration to each of the following characteristics in an applicant:
Applications are to be submitted by January 12, 2024. A similar deadline is anticipated annually.
$300,000,000 is available in total funding for FY22-23. Awards last for 2 years. Awards are based on a formula. For any funding received from this program, the CTEIG grant requires a proportional dollar match as follows: $2.00 for every $1.00 received from this program. The grant amounts will be appropriated as follows, unless otherwise determined: