State Profile For Nevada

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State Director

Ms. Phyllis Dryden, Director
Office of Career, Technical & Adult Education, Nevada Department of Education
700 East 5th Street, Room 111
Carson City, NV 89701

CTE Web Site(s) as Applicable

Secondary: http://www.doe.nv.gov/CTE.htm

Mission

The Office of Career and Adult Education is dedicated to developing innovative educational opportunities for students to acquire skills for productive employment and lifelong learning.

CTE Statistics

Number of Public High Schools: 104
Number of Public High Schools Offering Solely (or primarily) CTE courses: 1
Number of Students in Public High Schools: 121,370
Number of Secondary Students Enrolled in CTE: 47,953
Number of Public Community Colleges: 2
Number of Students at Public Community Colleges: 16,371
Number of Postsecondary Students Enrolled in CTE: 28,716
Perkins Funds Received: $8,406,191

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: State Board of Education/State Board for Career and Technical Education
Programmatic Control For Postsecondary CTE: State Board of Education/State Board for Career and Technical Education

CTE Funding: Non-Perkins

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State Director Roles and Responsibilities

The State Director has the title of State Director for Career, Technical and Adult Education. The Director’s position is a career position that reports to the Deputy Superintendent for Instructional, Research, and Evaluative Services. The Director’s primary areas of responsibility are CTE, Adult Basic Education, Adult High School Programs, GED State Administration, Alternative Education, Distance Learning, Learn and Serve Grants, and Liaison with State Workforce Investment Board.

CTE Connections to Secondary Education and High School Reform

Career technical education is beginning to play a stronger role in high school reform efforts due to available CTE data that shows CTE students in Nevada have lower dropout rates, higher proficiency scores (especially among minority students), and have higher graduation rates. The CTE Director serves on the State High School Reform Planning Committee and provides the members with CTE statistics and other pertinent information.

Implementation of Career Clusters

Nevada believes that Career Clusters offer an infrastructure for seamless educational transition between all levels of learning. The state also feels Career Clusters provide a tool to improve career guidance and a structure to organize the sequences of courses around. In general, Nevada feels Career Clusters will improve CTE.


In order to effectively implement Career Clusters, Nevada has adopted a state policy that supports Career Clusters. The state has also provided districts and postsecondary institutions with career cluster information, which some are already implementing at an introductory level. Career and technical education programs in Nevada are organized under six umbrella areas: (1) Agriculture and Natural Resources; (2) Business and Marketing Education; (3) Family and Consumer Sciences; (4) Health Sciences Education; (5) Information Technology Education; (6) Trade and Industrial Education. The areas are further defined by the State approved sixteen nationally recognized career clusters.


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