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State specialty schools urge capital funding and dorm expansion as enrollment demand grows
Summary
Administrators from the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering, the Alabama School of Fine Arts and the Alabama School of Math and Science told the House Ways and Means Education Committee that enrollment demand exceeds dorm capacity and requested capital funding, including additional dormitories.
Representatives of three state-funded specialty schools told the House Ways and Means Education Committee that demand for residential seats is outstripping capacity and requested capital support, particularly additional dormitory space.
Matt Massey, president of the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering (ASCTE), said the school is entering its fifth year, expects more than 400 students next year and that about 35 to 40 percent of students are residential. Massey described ASCTE’s outreach programs — including Excel (Advancing Cyber Concepts and Engineering Learning) that provides camps in more than 40 schools — work with the Alabama State Department of Education on curriculum development and a newly funded…
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