Committee reviews CTE out-of-region enrollment, transportation and directory-information sharing

Senator Ruth Hardy presented an amendment to H.480 that would gather and clarify law and rules governing secondary students who enroll in Career and Technical Education (CTE) centers outside their home service region. The draft pulls existing statutory and regulatory language into one section and adds guidance on tuition, optional transportation, and the sharing of directory information for recruitment and wait-list purposes.

Why it matters: Hardy and counsel said the intent is to reduce confusion about what districts and CTE centers may do now under current law. The sponsor said the amendment "is either allowable under current law or is currently in current law in various different places that may be hard to grasp altogether," and that consolidating the rules could improve clarity for students and districts.

The amendment's components as explained on the record: definitions for "receiving district" and "sending district"; a provision that the sending district shall pay tuition pursuant to an…