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City and district explore pipeline from school CTE shops into municipal trades
Summary
Springfield officials proposed a labor‑management committee to pilot pathways from high school CTE programs into in‑house facilities trades, citing municipal staffing needs and wages that can reach $40 an hour.
City and school officials proposed building a formal pipeline to move graduating CTE students into municipal trades jobs during a joint presentation to the Springfield School Committee.
Patrick Roche, the city’s chief financial officer, and John Carrigan, who oversees the district’s facilities operations, said the city maintains a 40‑person in‑house trades group that performs maintenance across roughly 110 municipal and school buildings and could offer…
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