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State education chief proposes single Education Service Agency to unify career and technical education
Summary
Secretary of Education Zoe Saunders told the House Committee on Commerce & Economic Development the proposal would move oversight of 15 CTE centers into a single Education Service Agency to expand access, align programs to workforce needs, and create a funding line tied to Act 73; members pressed for Joint Fiscal Office financial modeling before proceeding.
Secretary Zoe Saunders told the House Committee on Commerce and Economic Development on March 26 that the Agency of Education is proposing a single Education Service Agency (ESA) to oversee the state’s 15 career and technical education centers, aiming to guarantee universal access, increase middle‑school exposure to CTE, and align programs with statewide workforce needs.
Saunders, the state’s secretary of education, said the ESA would standardize quality and costs across centers, prioritize programs that respond to labor demand, and take responsibility for program approvals and substantive changes. "This proposal is intended to ensure universal access to career and technical education and also to create earlier exposure to CTE in middle school," Saunders said.
Why it matters: Sponsors and agency officials said the unified governance model would reduce fragmentation, allow strategic prioritization of scarce…
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