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Appropriations committee approves technical education bill but rejects amendment to restore private career-school participation
Summary
Lawmakers debated language in a Technical Education and Career System bill that removed private career schools from cooperative arrangements and added nonprofit training institutes. An amendment to reinstate private career schools failed 21–25; the base bill was advanced.
The Appropriations Committee considered a substitute for House Bill 7216, a measure implementing recommendations for the Technical Education and Career System (CTE/CTECS). Members debated a change that removed “private career schools” from a list of entities that the executive director may enter into cooperative arrangements with and replaced that phrase with “a nonprofit training institute in the state that provides training in the building trades…
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