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House committee advances bill to boost CTE equipment funding for small schools
Summary
The House Education Committee voted 8-0 (1 excused) to pass House Bill 18, which raises the equipment-and-supplies component of the Career and Technical Education (CTE) funding model for smaller districts and includes a $350,000 one-time appropriation for the first year.
The Wyoming House Education Committee on Jan. 17 passed House Bill 18, a committee bill intended to increase funding for equipment and supplies in career and technical education programs in smaller school districts.
Vice Chair Jared Lawley, presenting the measure, said the bill ‘‘makes some modifications in the model about how we do CTEs’’ and is targeted at smaller districts that may have only one or two CTE teachers. The bill leaves the existing per-FTE calculation in place but adds a higher floor so small programs can use whichever figure is greater.
The bill changes language in statute from older ‘‘vocational education’’ terminology to ‘‘career and technical education’’ and adjusts references to Attachment A in the session laws. Under the formula…
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