State Profile For Arizona

Data sources used in this profile (PDF,177Kb)

State Director

Mr. Milton Ericksen, Deputy Associate Superintendent & State Director
Career & Technical Education, Arizona Department of Education
1535 West Jefferson, Bin 42
Phoenix, AZ 85007

CTE Web Site(s) as Applicable

Secondary: http://www.ade.state.az.us/cte/

Postsecondary: http://www.ade.az.gov/arizonaheat/

Mission

Mission: to prepare Arizona students for workforce success and continuous learning.
Vision: to ensure a dynamic workforce by fully developing every student’s career and academic potential.

CTE Statistics

Number of Public High Schools:	570
Number of Public High Schools Offering Solely (or primarily) CTE courses:	13
Number of Students in Public High Schools:	356,744
Number of Secondary Students Enrolled in CTE:	125,102
Number of Public Community Colleges:	21
Number of Students at Public Community Colleges:	205,285
Number of Postsecondary Students Enrolled in CTE:	152,221
Perkins Funds Received:	$27,027,130

*Arizona has thirteen Joint Technical Education Districts (JTED). JTEDs are overlay school districts that offer solely CTE programs. Only one JTED has a complete stand-alone central site, but most JTED programs are offered on existing high school or community college campuses; most often, the programs involve students from multiple high schools and multiple districts within the JTED District.

CTE Governance Structure

Perkins Eligible Agency:	Department of Education
Agency Administering Secondary CTE:	Department of Education
Agency Administering Postsecondary CTE:	Department of Education
Programmatic Control For Secondary CTE:	Arizona State Board of Career and Technological Education
Programmatic Control For Postsecondary CTE:	State Board of Education

CTE Funding: Non-Perkins

State Secondary Funding:
State Postsecondary Funding:	N/A
Local Secondary Funding:
Local Postsecondary Funding:	N/A

State Director Roles and Responsibilities

All secondary and postsecondary Career and Technical Education, Workforce Investment Act, TAA, ARRIS, and ETPL. Director also sits on Workforce Development Boards and Councils.

CTE Connections to Secondary Education and High School Reform

Career technical education plays a significant role in high school reform efforts. The Arizona Department of Education was one of the lead states in hosting a regional high school reform summit. The CTE division is working collaboratively with other divisions at the Department of Education to put a formal renewal process in place, statewide. We are working cooperatively with the Arizona Business Education Coalition, the state’s largest education/economic development, on education reform. The State Director is providing support and taking part in conversations related to the state’s high school reforms.

Implementation of Career Clusters

Arizona believes that Career Clusters provide the infrastructure for a seamless educational transition between all learner levels. The state also views Career Clusters as tool for career guidance; a platform to organize sequences of courses around; and, in general, a tool to improve the quality of CTE.

In order to effectively implement Career Clusters, Arizona has integrated Career Clusters into the state plan. In addition, several strategies are being used to support the implementation of Career Clusters. Arizona now requires all accountability information to be collected by Career Clusters and the state benchmarks existing program standards against Career Cluster knowledge and skill statements.

Several delivery methods are being used to implement and deliver Career Clusters, including National Academy Foundation academies and Tech Prep.

Implementation levels of programs of study

• Secondary and 2-year Postsecondary: all 16 nationally-recognized career clusters are implemented, except for Government and Public Administration.


• 4-year Postsecondary: Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Education and Training and STEM are implemented.

Indicators

Source

The data in the above chart was taken from the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act Reports to Congress on State Performance (see below). The Consolidated Annual Report, or CAR, is a mandatory fiscal and accountability report submitted by each state to the U.S. Department of Education. It provides performance information on Perkins indicators. A red X means a state did not meet its adjusted level of performance and a green checkmark means that the state did meet its goal. A blue bar in the Secondary Indicators table means that the state does not offer students the opportunity to earn both a high school diploma and other credential (e.g., a skill certificate) or that the data was not otherwise provided by the state. A blue bar in the Postsecondary Indicators table indicates that the state did not provide data. CAR narratives for individual states are hyperlinked below.

Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act Reports to Congress on State Performance

State profiles for each of the core indicators (academic attainment, attainment of diplomas or degrees, placement and retention in further education or employment, and participation and completion of non-traditional training programs) for secondary and postsecondary programs. Also included are federal allocations, enrollment by gender, and a brief description of program improvement and data quality efforts for each state.

• Performance Program Year 2006-2007 (PDF, 2.6 MB)
• Performance Program Year 2005-2006 (PDF, 6.6 MB)
• Performance Program Year 2004-2005 (PDF, 1.8 MB)
• Performance Program Year 2003-2004 (PDF, 3.5 MB)

CAR Narratives for individual states

• 2003-2004
• 2004-2005
• 2005-2006
• 2006-2007

Last updated on 10/05/2009