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Councilors discuss Healey plan to add CTE seats and proposed lottery for admissions
Summary
Councilor Mitchison briefed the Haverhill City Council on Gov. Maura Healey’s supplemental budget proposals to add career-technical education seats, establish a lottery for oversubscribed programs and fund capital upgrades; Mayor Barrett and councilors discussed local planning and next steps; no council action was taken.
Councilor Matthew Mitchison told the Haverhill City Council that Governor Maura Healey’s supplemental budget would include $75 million for career-technical education (CTE) grants intended to add about 3,000 new VOTEC (vocational-technical) seats statewide over three years and a proposed $100 million for “skills capital” grants to upgrade labs and expand program capacity.
Mitchison, who identified the Governor’s plan as containing “lots of good things,” said the proposal would also create a lottery for admissions to address equity concerns and would limit selective criteria to certain disciplinary or attendance rules. He said middle schools would be required to maintain district-wide policies to expose students to CTE options and that the overall package “fits into what we’ve been working on” to align K–12, community…
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