The Decker Career and Technology Education Program provides students with hands-on training designed to lead to employment or advanced training, upon graduation.

The Decker Program links state academic requirements to vocational training and is designed to help our students find meaningful employment after graduation. It is named in honor of Alonzo G. Decker, Jr., former Chairman of Black and Decker Corporation for his support of the school.

Doors opened in January 1998. The Decker Program is hailed as a model for the state.

Through the Decker program, Hannah More has created an opportunity for its students to graduate from high school with advanced career-oriented technical training, a vocational internship, and help with job placement. The program offers five areas of training: automotive maintenance, building trades (carpentry, electrical, plumbing), culinary arts, ICC (Information Communications Center - including desktop publishing and television production), and horticulture and landscaping.

Decker students will leave the program with portfolios that enumerate their mastery of skills and equipment.

Decker enrollments are based on specific criteria: interest, the support of a parent or guardian, approval from the home school, and absence of dangerous behavior to self or others. Either by practical application or results on a standardized test, students must show that they have a talent in the area to which they are applying.

Full-time Decker students select an area of concentration and earn graduation completer credits. Students who take Decker electives also earn credits toward graduation requirements. All first-time Decker students are required to take the technology survey course.