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The National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium, located in Washington, D.C., is a professional society of the state and territory agency heads responsible for career technical education. Founded in 1920, NASDCTEc has a membership of more than 200 senior state staff and individuals that work to ensure quality career technical education at the secondary, postsecondary and adult levels. The association is governed by a board of directors comprising 16 members that include one associate member representative and four officers. NASDCTEc hosts two national meetings every year that provide information on legislation, research, and emerging issues important to career technical education. It maintains an active listing service system for state directors, and publishes a monthly electronic newsletter.

The New America Foundation, founded in 1999, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute that invests in new thinkers and ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States. The institute manages operations in California and Washington, D.C. It administers education policy, political reform, wireless future, and workforce and family programs. The New America Foundation also manages Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program, which supports journalists, academics and public policy analysts. The institute works on the issues of weapon proliferation and alternative national security frameworks. In addition, its Media Policy Initiative program focuses on policies to invigorate public media and increase independent public interest reporting.