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Board approves Bellevue School District 2025–26 CTE plan
Summary
The Bellevue School District Board voted to approve the district’s 2025–26 Career & Technical Education (CTE) four‑year plan required under the federal Perkins Act; directors asked staff for enrollment breakdowns, a glossary of acronyms and more details about enterprise and internship opportunities.
The Bellevue School District Board of Directors approved the district’s 2025–26 Career & Technical Education (CTE) four‑year plan during its regular meeting.
The plan, required under the federal Perkins Act, outlines program priorities, participation metrics and alignment to workforce needs. Director Phil Block moved to approve the plan; the motion was seconded and passed by voice vote.
District CTE director Jess Moyer told the board the district has consistently identified about 9 percent of graduating cohorts as CTE concentrators. Enrollment clusters include arts/aviation/communications (about 3,500 students), business and marketing (nearly 2,500), and middle‑school STEM (close to 2,000). Moyer said health sciences and culinary programs each enroll more than 1,000 students and that information technology also has strong participation.
Moyer described strategies to expand career planning for students, including a district rollout of the School Links platform for high school planning and a redesigned CTE web page with videos showing how courses connect to careers. The district has added exploratory courses (intro to game design and digital painting) and started a beginning automotive offering at Bellevue High School; hands‑on classes remain capped for safety and supervision reasons. The district also expanded a ‘career choices’ year‑long class and said it will provide course‑level enrollment counts after the meeting.
Board members welcomed the plan but asked staff to provide additional details and tools for public understanding. Director Monica Webster asked whether low enrollments in some pathways were driven by program caps; Moyer confirmed caps affect access for safety‑sensitive classes and said the district will explore introductory offerings. Directors requested a glossary for technical terms and acronyms and asked staff to return specific course enrollments and information on enterprise or income‑generating operations (for example, automotive diagnostics or on‑campus catering programs).
The board’s approval allows the district to submit the required local plan documents and continue CTE work to expand equitable access to career pathways. The district said it will report back with the requested enrollment breakdowns and follow‑up materials at a future meeting.
