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Johnstown-Monroe expands career-technical offerings, touts job placements and new CNA pathway
Summary
Superintendent Philip Wagner said the district expanded career-technical offerings with an on-site electrical trades lab, a multi-skilled technician/pre-engineering pathway and a first-year certified nursing assistant program; he flagged local employer interest and paid internship wages of about $21–$25 an hour for students.
Philip Wagner said the district has increased career-technical programming to meet local employer demand and overcome capacity limits at the regional career-technical center (CTEC). He described creating satellite electrical-trades programming at the high school by converting and expanding classroom space into a lab with about 28 stations, which Wagner said produced students who already had job commitments by their senior year.
Wagner said students in the program earned summer pay as interns "between 21 and $25 an hour" and that the district will broaden a multi-skilled technician program into a pre-engineering pathway to match local two‑year-equivalent job opportunities at companies such as Amgen and Intel (outside the district).
On health sciences, Wagner said the district launched a certified nursing assistant (CNA) program in its first year with eight students (seven female, one male). He said a feeder program includes more than 40 students, and that roughly 24 of those appear likely to enter the CNA program next year. He also said a Newark hospice facility has engaged with students and may hire some graduates directly.
Wagner presented these program expansions as a way to provide direct workplace pathways from high school into local jobs, and as support for sector needs that district leaders expect to grow with longer-term economic development in the area.
