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Board approves Perkins 2025–26 plan; CTE coordinator outlines new equipment and partnerships
Summary
The board approved the division’s 2025–26 Perkins plan after a detailed presentation on Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs, equipment purchases and local employer partnerships including youth-apprenticeship opportunities.
The Radford City School Board voted to approve the 2025–26 Perkins plan after a presentation by Kirsten Mosby outlining current-year spending, program growth and planned uses for the division’s Perkins allocation.
Mosby told the board the division began the year with $29,078.92 in Perkins-related funds before other required state purchases, and that the grant money has supported equipment, credentialing exams and program growth. She listed recent purchases and investments including 18 small engines and associated tool kits for a new small-engine program, new culinary knives and aprons, updated cameras for TV/media production, gardening tools used in student garden sales, and safety gear and single-board computers for precision machining and electronics instruction.
Mosby described curriculum and professional-development support paid with Perkins funds, including online platforms for industry-specific instruction and teacher training, and hands-on materials from vendors such as RealityWorks for medical-terminology instruction. She said Radford’s CTE programs achieved measurable credentialing results this year—an 80% pass rate on the workforce-readiness exam and six of nine students passing the NIMS machining Level 1 exam—and that remediation and retesting are ongoing where needed.
Mosby also described new and ongoing partnerships to expand student work experiences: youth-apprenticeship interviews with employer Moog, and a “Bridal to Excellence” partnership with Pulaski County Schools to increase manufacturing and health-care exposure for students. She said one teacher retirement will be replaced and that a new small-engine teacher is planned.
After the presentation a board member moved to approve the Perkins plan; the board approved the motion by voice vote. Mosby said Perkins spending and reporting rules structure how funds are used and that the plan will be adjusted when the division’s new allocation is received.
