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Board approves affiliation with Westview Healthy Living for health technology training
Summary
The board approved an affiliation agreement with Westview Healthy Living to provide hands-on training and placement opportunities for students in the new health technologies career and technical education program at Worcester High School; the memorandum clarifies insurance and does not involve financial exchange.
Superintendent (name not specified) presented an affiliation agreement between Worcester City Schools and Westview Healthy Living to support the district’s new career-technical education program in health technologies at Worcester High School. The district described the agreement as a nonfinancial memorandum of understanding to allow student training and to clarify insurance and related responsibilities.
Why it matters: The superintendent said the health technologies program is in its first year and is drawing strong student interest. The affiliation is intended to give students hands-on training and provide Westview Healthy Living with potential future candidates for employment.
The superintendent described the relationship as mutually beneficial and not a financial transaction: "It's really just memorializing that we would have the opportunity to send our kids there... and then kind of clarifies insurance and some of those medical" responsibilities. The superintendent also noted hope that the Westview partnership may become a model for other local employers.
Decision and votes: The board moved and seconded approval of the affiliation agreement during the regular agenda; the transcript shows board members including Starcher and Kleinhenz verbally recorded as "Yes."
