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Senate committee examines S.313 intent language to expand access to career technical education
Summary
Committee members discussed S.313, which sets intent goals to expand and align career technical education (CTE) statewide — including universal access, middle-school exposure, workforce alignment, funding changes and governance — and debated whether the bill should serve as a framework or a vehicle for more detailed reform tied to Act 73 implementation.
A Senate committee reviewed S.313 (as introduced), a bill that sets out intent language aimed at transforming Vermont's career technical education (CTE) system. Committee discussion centered on seven challenges enumerated in the bill — universal access to CTE, expanded middle-school participation, alignment with labor-market needs, student-centered funding, exploring CTE centers as diploma-conferring comprehensive high schools, strengthening adult CTE pathways, and coordinating governance and program quality — and on how to move from intent to implementable policy.
A committee member reading the bill summarized its aims: "It is the intent of the general assembly to transform Vermont's CTE system as follows," and then outlined the seven challenges intended to guide the committee's…
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