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Board discussed Mazda Toyota MOU to place industry coach in Brewer High career-tech classes
Summary
During the board meeting, district staff described a memorandum of understanding with Mazda Toyota for the LOTT program, which would place an industry-funded coach in career-technical classes at Brewer High School to teach workplace safety and job skills.
Morgan County Schools staff described a recently considered partnership with Mazda Toyota that would place an industry-funded coach in the district's career-technical program.
The district report said the agreement is a memorandum of understanding (MOU) discussed at a prior board meeting and identified the program by its acronym, LOTT, which staff said stands for "Leading Industry Growth by Helping Teachers." "What that program is is they are hiring a person that will go into our career tech classes down at, located at Brewer High School," the staff member reported.
Nut graf: The partnership is intended to connect students in career-technical classes with industry-standard safety practices and workforce skills by embedding an industry representative in classroom instruction. District staff described the hired role as a "skilled group leader, community education assistant" whose work would focus on safety and skills employers say are lacking when students enter the workforce.
District staff framed the arrangement as supplemental to existing career-tech programming at Brewer High School; the MOU text and specific implementation timeline were not read into the record at the meeting. The report identified LOTT as an initiative that places a Mazda Toyota-funded trainer in classrooms to work alongside career-tech teachers.
The transcript indicates the MOU was the subject of a prior board vote. The district report did not provide the mover, seconder, or vote tally for that prior action during the portion of the meeting summarized in the transcript. It also did not detail ongoing funding commitments, expected start date, or evaluation metrics for the coach's work.
District staff also mentioned other career-education supports during the report, including credit-acceleration and dual-enrollment options intended to free students' schedules for career-tech classes. Those program descriptions were presented as part of the broader student-success work rather than as elements of the Mazda Toyota agreement.
Ending: The district indicated it will continue implementing career-technical programming with industry partners; staff did not announce further formal board actions on the Mazda Toyota MOU during the portion of the meeting captured in the transcript.
