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Senate committee reviews Vermont law on career and technical education governance and tuitioning
Summary
Legislative counsel walked the Senate Education Committee through state statutes that define three governance models for career and technical education centers, explain regional advisory boards and set a tuitioning framework; committee members asked for field testimony and the current rules and calendars.
Beth St. James of the Office of Legislative Council told the Senate Education Committee on Tuesday that Vermont law lays out three governance models for career and technical education (CTE) and prescribes how centers may collect tuition.
St. James said she was presenting the statutes, not policy recommendations: “I am not a career and technical education expert,” she told the committee, and asked members to direct detailed field questions to CTE practitioners. Her walk-through focused on Title 16, Chapter 37 of Vermont law, which she said contains the state’s CTE provisions.
The statute establishes three principal arrangements: (1) local school districts that operate CTE centers alongside their other K–12 responsibilities (the most common model), (2) stand‑alone regional career technical center school districts whose sole function is to operate a CTE center, and (3) “comprehensive high schools” — public or independent high schools the State Board of Education has designated to…
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