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School committee approves Everett High School CTE admissions policy; lottery and exploratory rotation retained
Summary
The committee voted 8-0 to adopt a revised Career and Technical Education admissions policy that clarifies exploratory rotations, keeps a lottery system, and adds an employability-skills rotation and a redo rotation for make-up work.
The Everett School Committee on Feb. 25 approved an updated Everett High School Career and Technical Education admissions policy that clarifies how ninth-grade exploratory rotations work, retains a lottery for program entry and adds a designated employability-skills rotation.
Why it matters: the policy governs how students become eligible for chapter 74 CTE programs, affects course scheduling at the high school and aims to improve equity by giving students more opportunities to try programs before selecting one.
CTE Director Siobhan Araya told the committee that exploratory operates on multi-day rotations; students cycle through CTE program classrooms and the new scheduling adds a ninth program rotation for employability skills and a final "redo" rotation that lets students make up missed work or improve grades. "That last rotation allows them to contact the teacher and then make up that work to get over that threshold to be eligible for the lottery," Araya said.
Under the policy approved by the committee, students must pass exploratory (a 60 overall is the passing threshold) to be eligible; to gain entry into a specific CTE program through the district lottery a student must have at least a 75 in the program. Araya emphasized the district will continue to use a randomized lottery rather than selective recruiting for program entry.
The motion to accept the Everett High School Career and Technical Education admissions policy was made and seconded during the meeting and passed by roll call vote, 8-0.
