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House committee hears bill to create Career and Technical Education Mobility Grant Program
Summary
Representative Bill Elam presented HB 358 to create a CTE Mobility Grant Program to help students access out-of-district CTE pathways; the grant would be subject to appropriation, administered by DEED, and prioritize rural/remote sending and hosting arrangements. Committee members requested more detail on prioritization rubrics, program mapping and Dept. of Labor involvement.
Representative Bill Elam introduced House Bill 358 as a framework to establish a Career and Technical Education Mobility Grant Program to support pre-apprenticeship and work-based learning opportunities for secondary students. "This is an aspirational bill... If someday the state has funding, we could do this. We don't have to wait to set up the program," Elam said, describing the bill as a framework for grants that would be subject to appropriation and administered by the Department of Education and Early Development (DEED).
The bill creates an administratively…
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