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State Board interim CTE director highlights enrollment growth, industry-aligned standards and strong placement rates
Summary
Joshua Whitworth, interim administrator for the Division of Career Technical Education, told the House Education Committee that roughly 72,000 students are enrolled in CTE courses, program enrollment has grown sharply in recent years, and CTE concentrators show higher postsecondary enrollment and strong employment placement.
Joshua Whitworth, executive director of the State Board of Education and interim administrator for the Division of Career Technical Education, briefed the House Education Committee on career technical education (CTE) programs and outcomes.
Whitworth said Idaho has a single governance structure for education that supports alignment across secondary, technical colleges and workforce training. He described CTE as “priority for youth and adults for high skill in demand careers” and urged legislators to meet students and program staff after the hearing.
Key figures presented by Whitworth (as stated in testimony): the secondary system has a little more than 300,000 students; about 72,000 students are enrolled in CTE programs and that represents roughly 71 percent of high…
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