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District reports rising CTE participation and completion rates; trustees press for employer partnerships
Summary
Board received an information update on Career and Technical Education (CTE) offerings, noting a near‑30% CTE completer rate among recent seniors, expansion into welding and robotics, and multiple grants supporting pathways; trustees asked for stronger employer partnerships and post‑graduation follow‑up.
Chico Unified staff updated trustees on recent growth in Career and Technical Education offerings across the district’s two comprehensive high schools and Fairview. Tiffany Herringer said the district has expanded pathways (agriculture, digital arts, engineering, culinary, public safety, welding, robotics) and reported that "nearly 30 percent of our seniors are CTE completers," a figure she said reflects steady growth and higher graduation rates among CTE completers.
Herringer described dual‑enrollment partnerships with Butte College for auto and technical pathways, advisory boards for each pathway and multiple active grants including Perkins and Golden State Pathways. Trustees questioned credentialing requirements for CTE instructors, how the district measures post‑graduation employment outcomes, and how to expand blue‑collar trades pathways for students not pursuing four‑year college.
Staff said the district conducts required Perkins follow‑up for graduates and is compiling additional post‑graduate data, while credentialing and recency requirements remain challenges for some CTE pathways. The item was informational; no board action was required this evening.
