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West Bend district proposes $41,000 in updates for Career and Technical Education resources
Summary
District staff recommended new and updated curricular resources for CTE classes — including Adobe Premiere Pro materials, TestOut Microsoft Office Pro seats, automotive and accounting textbooks — estimating roughly $41,000 to be covered from district CTE and CTE incentive grant funds and proposing public review before board approval.
Timothy Harder, a district staff member presenting to the West Bend School District Curriculum Committee on April 22, outlined recommended updates to career and technical education (CTE) course materials that the district said would let high school students continue to take Moraine Park Technical College–aligned courses on district campuses.
Harder said the changes respond to Moraine Park’s curriculum updates and industry-standard software changes. The recommendations include updated resources for a technical college credit Video 2 course (including a Premiere Pro resource), revised materials for Accounting 1 and 2 (Fundamental Accounting Principles by Wild/ Shaw and career-readiness texts), adoption of TestOut Microsoft Office Pro for computer-literacy credit (estimated at about 75 student seats), and a new Fundamentals of Automotive Technology resource used across the district’s automotive suite.
The district plans to use a mix of its internal CTE budget and CTE incentive grant funding tied to student certification. Harder told the committee the estimate for purchasing and implementing the recommended resources for next school year is "we're looking at roughly $41,000." He said the district expects about 70% of that to come from the district CTE budget and the remainder from incentive grant funds, depending on final pricing and any digital purchasing collaboration with Moraine Park.
Harder described procurement and implementation steps: publish the materials for public viewing locally and at the public library, continue price negotiations with Moraine Park (which buys at larger volume and could lower per-seat or per-license costs), allow staff collaborative preparation time with vendor or college instructors, and return recommendations to the full school board for final approval.
Committee members asked whether funds are available; Harder said the combined CTE budget and incentive money should cover the proposed purchases. The presentation included an implementation-hour estimate for staff work and noted that some resources remain paper-based while others are licensed annually.
The committee did not take formal action at the meeting; Harder requested permission to send the materials for public review and to return to the board with a formal recommendation.
