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Board approves Perkins CTE local plan; staff propose $272,000 budget and announce donated food truck
Summary
Board approved the local Perkins V plan to support career and technical education with a proposed $272,000 program budget. Presentation included line items for equipment, professional development, student travel and a newly announced donated $250,000 food truck for the culinary program.
The board voted to approve the Lynchburg City Schools Perkins V local plan and associated expenditure priorities, a federally authorized program that funds career and technical education (CTE). The district’s CTE director presented a summary of program performance and a proposed spending plan that staff wrote to the Perkins submission deadline.
“We get results,” the CTE director said, noting the graduation rate for CTE completers runs notably high; he said the program’s completer graduation rate was “right around 96 percent.” The director walked board members through the application’s schedules and emphasized work-based learning, dual-enrollment expansion through CVCC, and nontraditional recruitment…
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