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District outlines CTE growth, dual-credit personal finance and community partnerships
Summary
The district reported growth and pathway work in CTE programs, including an approved personal finance dual-credit course, partnerships with the Northwest Career & Technical Academy and local industry learning trips.
The district's CTE director updated the board on career and technical education programs March 11, reporting broad participation across agriculture, family and consumer sciences, and business/technology and describing new dual-credit and pathway developments.
The director said agriculture classes enroll hundreds of students and cited a figure of 416 participants in ag programming; family and consumer science and business and technology programs also reported sizable participation. A new personal finance course has been approved as a dual-credit offering and can serve as an option for a student's third-year math requirement, allowing students to earn both high-school and college credit. The district also maintains partnerships with the Northwest Career and Technical Academy (NCTA) and other regional institutions for daily skills-based programming and learning trips.
CTE staff outlined existing grad-pathways (agriculture, foods, business and marketing) and plans to combine pathways to match student interests and labor-market needs. Students participate in hands-on projects, sales (plant sale and floral arrangements), and community partnerships that provide authentic audiences and revenue for programs.
Board members asked about multilingual (ML) student participation rates in CTE and were told specific disaggregated participation data was not immediately available; the director said he would look into ML participation numbers and report back.
