Students' Right to Know

KANSAS STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Students’ Right to Know

Career Technical Education (CTE) Information

Kansas Career Clusters

• Career Clusters organize Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs into broad industry areas that help students explore careers, build skills and plan for life after high school. Each cluster connects classroom learning to real-world experiences and leads to more focused career pathways aligned with high-demand fields across Kansas. 

KSDE CTE Resources

• Kansas CTE Fact Sheets, Handbooks and Graphics.

Kansas Career Posters

• The Kansas Career Posters are produced by the Labor Market Information Services (LMIS) division of the Kansas Department of Labor (KOOL). These posters are updated each year. They highlight potential career paths across various career clusters. Each poster provides examples categorized by now, next, and later which highlight occupations students can obtain immediately after high school along with future jobs they can work towards with more education, training, or work experience.

Today's Occupations, Tomorrow’s Opportunities

• Explore. Discover. Succeed.T.O.T.O. makes career exploration fun and easy! Discover your interests and talents, and connect to real job opportunities in Kansas. Chase your dreams and follow our yellow brick road to a career that feels like home!

HirePaths

• HirePaths.com offers Kansas­based career exploration resources to help parents and educators. Their mission is to inform and excite parents and guardians, as well as K­12 teachers, about options young people can pursue after high school to quickly and affordably launch a successful, well­paying career. This includes on­the­job training programs, apprenticeships, and technical and community college education.

KansasWORKS

• Staff from the KansasWORKS Workforce Development Regions are available to assist schools statewide with work­based learning activities including mock interviews, coordination of job or career fairs, job shadowing and internships.

The Students' Right to Know Act

• Ensure the distribution of the degree prospectus information published by the state board of regents in accordance with K.S.A. 74­-32,303, the Kansas training information program report published in accordance with K.S.A. 74­-32,418, and any other information relevant to students' understanding of potential earnings as determined by the department of labor and the potential earnings published by each branch of the armed services of the United States military to students 7­12 grades and their families by October 15th each year.

Degree Stats Kansas Board of Regents

Kansas Training Information Program (K­TIP)

Please find more information at www.ksde.gov, Students’ Right to Know Act.

Kansas State Department of Education
900 S.W. Jackson Street, Suite 102
Topeka, Kansas 66612­-1212

The Kansas State Department of Education does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability or age in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding the nondiscrimination policies: KSDE General Counsel, Office of General Counsel, KSDE, Landon State Office Building, 900 S.W.Jackson, Suite 102, Topeka, KS 66612, (785) 296-­3201