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Brevard board reviews Greater Florida Consortium platform, seeks state funding for CTE expansion and firefighting academy
Summary
Board members discussed the consortium's legislative platform, pressed to remove two platform items and endorsed two local funding requests: $7.5 million for Career and Adult Education expansion and about $1 million to replicate a firefighting academy at Cocoa High School.
Doctor Rendell, a district official, told the Brevard school board on Oct. 7 that the district reviewed the Greater Florida Consortium of School Boards legislative platform and had presented local funding requests to the county's legislative delegation.
One of the requests, Rendell said, asks for about $7.5 million to expand offerings at the district's Career and Adult Education Center so it can meet statutory criteria to become a technical college by adding credential and certification programs (for example diesel mechanics). A second request seeks a little over $1 million to replicate an existing firefighting academy at Palm Bay High School at Cocoa High School. "We have to add some more programs, including diesel mechanic and stuff like that so that additional funds would allow us to do that," Rendell said. He said the firefighting academy has…
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