Arizona Pathways
to Prosperity
Strengthening connections between industry and education
Building pathways to economic prosperity
Arizona Pathways to Prosperity (APTP), a Center for the Future of Arizona (CFA) impact initiative, supports educational attainment, creates future opportunity, and leads to upward economic mobility for all young Arizonans while supporting state and regional talent needs.
We work with educational partners and industry to identify the careers, knowledge, skills, and degrees/credentials that businesses need to grow and thrive.
Our Impact
Students enrolled annually in an early college pathway
Students impacted annually through school partners’ education and career pathways practices
High school and middle school partners
Higher education partners
Educators have participated in industry externships, impacting 40,000+ students
Our Pathways
We partner with K-12 and postsecondary educators to design and implement career-connected pathways that fulfill student and industry needs.
We create pathways based on 3 key elements:
1. Career Exploration
CFA provides career exploration for grades K-12 with curriculum supporting K-5 learners and 6-12 learners.
2. Early College Programs of Study
CFA is working to ensure that all students in Arizona can complete at least 12 college credits while in high school.
3. Work-Based Learning
CFA works with education and industry partners to design and implement innovative work-based learning experiences for students and teachers, building capacity within the community to replicate and scale these innovations.
Career-connected learning experiences in high school help me gain a better understanding of the steps I need to take to pursue the future I want.
Our partners
District Partners
- AAEC South Mountain HS
- Amphitheater School District
- ASU Preparatory Academies
- Crane Elementary School District
- Dysart Unified School District
- Mesa Public Schools
- Peoria Unified School District
- Phoenix Union High School District
- Pima County School Superintendent’s Office
- Pima JTED
- Pima Vocational High School
- Southwest Technical Education District of Yuma (STEDY)
- Sunnyside Unified School District
- Tanque Verde Unified School District
- Tucson Unified School District
- West-MEC CTED
- Yuma Elementary School District
- Yuma County School Superintendent’s Office
Higher Education Partners
- Arizona State University
- Arizona Western Community College
- Central Arizona Community College
- Maricopa County Community College District
- Northern Arizona University
- Pima Community College
- University of Arizona
Arizona Business and Industry Partners
- Achieve60 AZ
- Arizona@Work Maricopa County
- Arizona@Work Pima County
- Arizona Business and Education Coalition
- Arizona Career and Technical Education Curriculum Consortium
- Arizona Department of Economic Security
- Arizona Department of Education
- Arizona Office of Economic Opportunity
- Arizona Office of the Governor
- Arizona Technology Council
- Chicanos Por La Causa
- CommunityShare
- ElevateEdAZ
- Futures INC
- Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce
- NAU GEAR UP
- PipelineAZ
- Science Foundation Arizona
- SciTech Institute
- Southern Arizona Manufacturing Partnership
- Tucson Chamber of Commerce
National Partners
- Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Jobs for the Future
- SRI International
Key Funders
- APS Foundation
- Arizona GEAR UP
- Cognizant Foundation
- Office of the Governor of Arizona
- Salt River Project
- US Department of Education – Education Innovation and Research
- Valley of the Sun United Way