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CTE director outlines $52M secondary grants, VR investments and shift toward output‑based funding
Summary
Wade Sick, state director for Career and Technical Education, briefed the committee on a $52 million secondary grants line, a $1 million CareerView XR virtual‑reality initiative, work‑based learning grants, capital projects across multiple CTE centers, and a proposed move to output‑based funding tied to concentrator and work‑based learning metrics.
Wade Sick, state director of the Department of Career and Technical Education, presented a wide‑ranging update that covered staffing, program grants, capital projects, and a proposed funding‑policy change.
Sick said the largest line in the department’s biennial budget is a roughly $52,000,000 secondary grants appropriation used to support CTE centers and programs; roughly $48.3 million of that is reserved for CTE program operations. He summarized federal Perkins authority and said Perkins reimbursements support curriculum, professional development and equipment purchases.
Sick described recent and…
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