Career and Technical Education (CTE) remains widely available in K–12 districts, but access problems increasingly trace back to an operational barrier: students can’t reliably reach off-campus internships, work-based learning, and community college partners. The new reporting highlights that many districts rely on schedules and transit routes that were never built for CTE travel. The piece points to Southern California Regional Occupational Center as an example, describing how it coordinates CTE rides across six districts to close the last-mile gap. It also cites Phoenix-based ElevateEdAZ, which expanded internship participation dramatically after solving transportation constraints, demonstrating that “access” can turn on practical capacity rather than curriculum availability. For district leaders and college partners, the takeaway is that transportation becomes part of the education design—not an afterthought—especially where CTE programming depends on time-sensitive external placements.