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Committee seeks to better align high-school CTE and community-college certificates
Summary
Staff told the THECB advisory panel they plan to streamline hundreds of CTE courses so that four high-school CTE courses better map to stackable level-1 certificates and associate pathways at community colleges.
Committee members discussed streamlining a large inventory of CTE courses so that typical high-school pathways (four courses) lead to stackable postsecondary credentials and workforce readiness.
Valerie and other staff said the current inventory includes many courses and variants and stressed the need to align high-school course sequences with level-1 certificates and associate degrees at two-year institutions. “If four courses is what students get in high school, that they are four courses chock full of relevant occupationally specific content,” Valerie said.
Staff noted there are currently 14 career clusters and 66 programs of study at the secondary level (58 statewide, 8 regional). They emphasized that regional programs of study exist where local labor markets justify specialization (for example, maritime programs near the Port of Houston).
Committee members urged that task groups pay attention to regional differences and the feasibility of delivering certificate-level skills at the high-school level. Staff said task groups will receive data and a review framework to guide curricular crosswalks between secondary and postsecondary offerings.
