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Draft bill would create a statewide CTE Education Service Agency, shifting governance and funding; lawmakers press for financial and operational details
Summary
A legislative draft would create a single CTE Education Service Agency (CTE ESSA) to oversee Vermont career and technical education, remove regional advisory boards, shift many operational duties from local districts, and require the governor’s budget to include the ESSA’s projected funding; lawmakers asked for JFO modeling, transportation and contracting details.
Legislative counsel and Agency of Education (AOE) staff walked the House Commerce & Economic Development committee through draft 2.1 of a proposal to transform Vermont’s career and technical education system on Feb. 11.
The draft introduces a new CTE Education Service Agency (CTE ESSA) defined as "the entity appointed by the Agency of Education to oversee and ensure the provision of CTE programming at all regional CTE centers and comprehensive high schools and to receive an appropriation and support of secondary CTE for all secondary students in the state," and specifies that "the CTE ESSA shall be a public body" subject to open meeting law. The bill retains rulemaking authority with the State Board of Education while moving operational responsibilities, program oversight and a new funding mechanism to the ESSA.
Under the draft, local school boards would no longer be described as operating CTE centers; instead they would 'house' centers and enter into operating agreements with the ESSA governing facility use, staffing and shared services. The proposal…
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