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Beaver County joins Oklahoma CareerTech; High Plains Tech Center launches TAP in local schools
Summary
High Plains Technology Center superintendent Barclay Holt told the Oklahoma CareerTech board that Beaver County joined the Oklahoma Career‑and‑Technology system this year and launched TAP middle‑school programs in four schools, enrolling about 300 students and planning health and construction/welding programs.
Barclay Holt, superintendent at High Plains Technology Center, told the Oklahoma CareerTech State Board that Beaver County has become part of the state CareerTech system and that the center has stood up a middle‑school TAP (technical and apprenticeship pathway) program across the county.
Holt said the district moved quickly after the board and local communities voted to participate: "If you vote this in, we will stand TAP programs up at every school. And we did that that that vote. By July, by August, we had kids in TAP." He told board members the initial launch put about 300 students into TAP across four schools and that the program remains at roughly that enrollment.
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