Senate panel advances bill to replace flat vocational-center funding with tiered model
The Senate Education Committee advanced Senate Bill 135 to replace a $3,250-per-FTE flat payment with a tiered funding structure for secondary vocational centers; agency officials said the plan would better match program costs to employer needs while superintendents and center directors urged more regional input and fiscal analysis.
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Charice Childers, director of the Arkansas Department of Career Education, told the Senate Education Committee that Senate Bill 135 would discontinue the current flat $3,250 per full-time equivalent payment and create a tiered funding structure to better align funding with program costs and labor-market demand. "Senate bill 135 allows for our current funding structure of $3,250 per full time equivalent to be discontinued in favor of establishing a tiered funding structure for distributing vocational center aid," Childers said during her presentation.
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