Pressure Cooker
Career and technical education encourages kids to graduate from high school and offers an alternative path to traditional post-secondary education. The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE,) is committed to increasing public awareness and appreciation of career and technical programs and to providing them with additional local, state and federal funding.
The key Congressional federal funding bill for Career and Technical Education is the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act. The Pressure Cooker campaign has developed a national public petition in tandem with ACTE to support an increase in funding to $1.7 billion for 2010. The goal is to get 100,000 signatures to deliver to the Congressional Appropriations Office before the vote in September.
The film Pressure Cooker was inspired by the extraordinary work of the Careers through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP), founded in 1990 by Richard Grausman. C-CAP works with public schools across the country to prepare underserved high school students for college and career opportunities in the restaurant and hospitality industry. C-CAP manages the largest independent high school culinary scholarship program in the United States. Since 1990, C-CAP has awarded $25 million in scholarships and donated $2.2 million in supplies and equipment to classrooms.
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