The state Senate Education Committee has unanimously passed SB 89, which would change all mentions of “vocational-technical,” “vocation” and “vocational” to “career and technical” in the PA School Code. Senator Ryan Aument, Senate Education Committee Chairperson, stated that such a measure would show support for career and technical education, while mitigating the stigma attached to vocational education, which he says has resulted in high-achieving students veering away from vocational training at the same time that lower-achieving students are being disproportionately pushed in that direction.