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NCACTEA is the Career and Technical Education Administrators' division of the North Carolina Association of Career and Technical Education (NCACTE) professional organization.
 
The North Carolina Association for Career and Technical Education (NCACTE) is the professional organization for North Carolina Educators associated with Career-Technical Education (CTE). In this capacity the organization serves as a unifying agency for personnel in all types of CTE.  NCACTE assumes and maintains active state leadership in initiating, expanding, improving, and promoting CTE. Within the structure of NCACTE are different divisions of Career and Technical Education such as: Administration, Business Education, Agriculture Education, Family and Consumer Science Education, Guidance, Health Occupation Education, Marketing Education, New and Related Services, NC ALIVE, Special Needs, Technology Education and Trade and Industrial Education. These divisions assist with an open state forum to promote, study, and discuss any issue involved in Career and Technical Education.
 
NCACTE is the North Carolina state association of the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) which is the largest national education association dedicated to the advancement of education that prepares youth and adults for careers.  ACTE's core purpose is to provide leadership in developing an education, prepared, adaptable and competitive workforce.  The strength of ACTE is reflected in its diverse membership composed of more than 28,000 career and technical educators, administrators, researchers, guidance counselors and others involved in planning and conducting career and technical education programs at the secondary, post-secondary and adult levels.  ACTE is committed to enhancing the job performance and satisfaction of its members; to increasing public awareness and appreciation for career and technical programs; and to assuring growth in local, state and federal funding for these programs by communicating and working with legislators and government leaders.