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Agency of Education: federal rules limit CTE access for some Adult Diploma students
Summary
At a May 7 committee hearing, Agency of Education officials told the committee that WIOA-funded Adult Diploma Program rules can make students enrolled in postsecondary CTE ineligible; AOE agreed to return recommendations on options, noting the program relies on roughly $1,000,000 in federal funds and WIOA maintenance requirements.
At a May 7 Education Committee hearing, Agency of Education officials told legislators that federal workforce rules could prevent some students in the Adult Diploma Program (ADP) from accessing Career and Technical Education (CTE).
Emily Simmons, general counsel at the Agency of Education, said state law (section 15 51 a) appears to give students without a diploma the right to enroll in CTE with district support, but that the ADP now relies on Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) funding. "We do have state law...that, appears to entitle a student, in any sense who does not have an diploma to enroll in CTE and have their district support that enrollment with funding," Simmons said. She added that because the program uses federal funds "this federal rule has to take precedence for this use of funds."
Simmons and AOE staff described a practical consequence: WIOA and Perkins definitions limit eligible participants to those not enrolled in postsecondary education, and the Perkins…
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