single person; we’re seeing mixed-use, we’re seeing condos, we’re seeing single-family. And it includes workforce housing. That’s been driving some of our housing demands, as well. We sit equidistant from three commercial airports plus our municipal airport, so we recognize from a workforce development viewpoint, we’ve got these careers here. And those are high-paying jobs.” TRAINING YOUTH FOR THE AREA’S ECONOMY In fact, Greeneville has been a leader in aviation education for a long time. It was the 11th school system in the U.S. to have CTE (Career & Technical Education) for aviation at the high-school and post secondary levels. Regarding other types of career training for its young residents, Morrison talks about the town’s growing emphasis on the skilled trades. “It was always sort of a focus on a four-year university degree, with an emphasis on credits and graduation. It discouraged high school students from leaving their campus and coming to the technology center to enjoy the 14 programs we had there.” “A couple of years ago, we moved those programs back to the campus, where a student can leave the classroom in one period, go over to the career training lab and do some type of electrical, carpentry, plumbing, auto body repair, robotics, automation, small appliance repair, and in the next period go back to class in just a short walk. We tried that on a trial basis. In the first semester, they tripled the number of students that were coming into those 224 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 05, ISSUE 10
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