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Great Oaks tells Lynchburg-Clay board about new CTE programs, $3.1M in grants and a $1.5M expansion quote
Summary
Great Oaks President Harry Snyder told the Lynchburg-Clay board on July 23 that Great Oaks approved new career-technical courses for 2024–25, two grants totaling $3,113,629, and received a $1,502,715 quote for the Laurel Oaks expansion project.
Harry Snyder, president of Great Oaks, told the Lynchburg-Clay Board of Education on July 23 that the regional career-technical consortium approved several new course offerings for the 2024–25 school year and reported recent grant awards and a facilities quote. Snyder introduced Spencer Bradley as a new Great Oaks board member representing Greenfield Exempted Village School District; Bradley is identified in the record as assistant director of recruitment at the University of Cincinnati's Lindner College of Business.
Snyder outlined the new programs that will be available at multiple Great Oaks sites, including an Aviation Exploration course at Live Oaks, Business Management at three high school locations, a JROTC class at Laurel Oaks, a law enforcement class at Laurel Oaks, welding, fiber optic technician training, powerline technician coursework, and a practical nursing program at AWD/OTC. He also reported that Great Oaks approved two grants: an Aspire grant of $1,279,779 and a Carl Perkins grant of $1,833,850, which together bring $3,113,629 in new funding to the consortium.
Snyder said the Great Oaks board approved quotes from FX Facility Group totaling $1,502,715 for the Laurel Oaks expansion project. The board did not take formal action on the Laurel Oaks project at the Lynchburg-Clay meeting beyond receiving the report; the Great Oaks decisions and the vendor quote were presented for local awareness and planning.
Why it matters: The new CTE courses expand vocational and technical pathways available to students in this region, and the grants and planned expansion represent a multi-million-dollar investment that could affect where and how Lynchburg-Clay students access career-technical instruction. Lynchburg-Clay board members received the update but did not vote on Great Oaks program approvals at this session.
What comes next: Great Oaks will proceed with its planning and implementation of the new courses and the Laurel Oaks expansion; local district leaders will coordinate student placements and transportation as needed.
