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Officials detail CTE audit findings and plans for credentials, alignment and startup grants
Summary
State education and higher‑education officials reported the first CTE audit, noted low early postsecondary credit rates, and described next steps: clearer K–12/postsecondary alignment, a credentials‑of‑value list, a career diploma rollout and an 85%/15% startup grant model for new programs.
State officials told the Senate Education Committee that Arkansas has strong pockets of career and technical education (CTE) but needs greater statewide alignment so CTE pathways reliably lead to postsecondary credit and workforce-ready credentials.
Ross White, director of the Division of Career and Technical Education, said the governor-ordered audit identified two priority areas: (1) low rates of students earning postsecondary credit while in K–12 and (2) an overrepresentation of legacy programs that may not align to the state's high-skill, high-wage, high-demand (H3) priorities. "Roughly 6 in 10 jobs in…
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