Career and Technical Education (CTE) Statistics

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Table H119. Percentage distributions of grade 9 through 12 public school teachers' sex and race/ethnicity, by school type and main teaching assignment: 2008
	Sex			Race/ethnicity¹
School type and main teaching assignment	Male	Female		White	Black		Hispanic		Other

Total	42.1	57.9		83.6	7.0		6.4		3.0

School type²
Regular	41.7	58.3		84.9	5.9		6.4		2.8
Career or technical	54.5	45.6		83.1	9.8		4.0	!	3.1	!
Other³	43.4	56.6		75.3	14.6		6.9		3.1	!

Main teaching assignment
Career and technical education (CTE), total	48.0	52.0		84.9	8.8		3.9		2.5
Nonoccupational CTE	38.7	61.3		84.0	10.5		3.1	!	2.5
Occupational education	55.5	44.5		85.6	7.4		4.6		2.5	!
Agriculture and natural resources	76.1	23.9		90.8	4.7	!	‡		‡
Business	31.9	68.2		86.7	8.0		3.8	!	‡
Communications and design	52.4	47.6		75.9	‡		13.1	!	‡
Computer and information sciences	58.0	42.0		76.3	‡		‡		‡
Construction, architecture, and engineering technologies	95.9	4.1	!	88.8	8.7	!	‡		‡
Consumer, culinary, and public services	13.9	86.1		83.2	10.4	!	‡		‡
Health sciences	‡	82.7		85.6	‡		‡		‡
Manufacturing	95.6	‡		97.4	‡		#		#
Marketing	48.8	51.2		82.3	12.0	!	‡		‡
Repair and transportation	98.6	‡		90.3	‡		‡		‡
Academic education	40.6	59.4		83.3	6.1		7.3		3.3
Other⁴	42.9	57.1		83.7	8.8		5.3		2.2
# Rounds to zero. ! Interpret data with caution. Estimate is unstable because the standard error represents more than 30 percent of the estimate. ‡ Reporting standards not met. ¹ Black includes African American and Hispanic includes Latino. “Other” includes Asian, American Indian, Alaska Native, Pacific Islander, Native Hawaiian, and respondents who reported two or more races. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. ² Excludes 9 percent of teachers with unspecified school type. ³ Other school types include special program emphasis schools, special education schools, and alternative/other schools. ⁴ Other teaching assignments include special education; health education; physical education; military science or Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC); religious studies, theology, or divinity; and other unspecified teaching assignments. NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), “Public School Teacher Questionnaire,” 2007–08.

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