Intern presents statewide inventory of CTE centers; enrollment and waitlist figures still pending

Helen R. Graves, the legislative intern for the Vermont House Committee on Commerce and Economic Development, said Friday that she has compiled a spreadsheet listing all career and technical education (CTE) centers in Vermont but remains halfway through the work because center-level enrollment and waitlist information are not publicly available.

Graves told the committee she assembled a reference document that lists each CTE center, its town, classification, sending schools and the programs offered, and that she will follow up with each center to obtain missing enrollment and waitlist figures. She said those items "are something that I can't find on the Internet, so we'll need to have feedback from each individual center" and expects to finish the remaining data collection next week.

Committee members confirmed the spreadsheet format was useful. Staff and members discussed copying Agency of Education contacts on outreach and asked Graves to share the file with committee staff so it can be uploaded and circulated. Committee members emphasized the value of including not only the number of students attending each center but the size of the catchment-area student population.

Committee members and the intern flagged disparities in program offerings and sending districts: Graves said some centers, such as the Hartford Area Career Technology Center, list many programs, while others, for example the Linden Institute, list about eight. The intern also reported variation in the number of sending schools, from as few as two or three to as many as 10–15 for some centers.

No formal action or vote took place on the report; committee leadership asked Graves to send the current spreadsheet to staff for posting and to return next week with the remaining enrollment and waitlist details.