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

Web Site

http://www.doe.nv.gov/edteam/ndeoffices/octae.html

Mission

To develop innovational educational opportunities for students to acquire skills for productive employment and life long learning.

CTE Statistics

Number of Public High Schools: 83
Number of Public High Schools Offering Solely (or primarily) CTE courses: 6
Number of Students in Public High Schools: 92,364
Number of Secondary Students Enrolled in CTE: 47,953
Number of Public Community Colleges: 4
Number of Students at Public Community Colleges: 54,566
Number of Postsecondary Students Enrolled in CTE: 28,716
Perkins Funds Received: $8,763,672

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

Key: Increased Funding  Small_green_arrow_up    Decreased Funding   Small_red_arrow_down    Funding Maintained   Small_blue_arrow_both
State Secondary Funding: Small_blue_arrow_both
State Postsecondary Funding: Small_blue_arrow_both
Local Secondary Funding: Small_blue_arrow_both
Local Postsecondary Funding: Small_blue_arrow_both

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 Adult Basic Education, Adult High School Education, career and technical education, state GED administration, Learn and Serve, and At-Risk High School Students.

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; have higher proficiency scores, especially among minority students; and has 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. Although the implementation of Career Clusters is in the beginning stages, Nevada has supported the implementation of Career Clusters by redirecting state resources and personnel.

Indicators

Secondary Indicators

Indicator Yes/No
Source: CAR Report 2003-4 2004-5
Academic Achievement Small_green_check Small_red_x
Vocational Skills Small_red_x Small_green_check
Diploma Equivalent Degree Credential Small_green_check Small_green_check
Diploma With Proficiency Credential Small_red_x Small_blue_line
Total Placement Small_green_check Small_green_check
Nontraditional Participation Small_green_check Small_green_check
Nontraditional Completion Small_green_check Small_green_check

Post Secondary Indicators

Indicator Yes/No
Source: CAR Report 2003-4 2004-5
Academic Achievement Small_red_x Small_green_check
Vocational Skills Small_red_x Small_green_check
Diploma Equivalent Degree Credential Small_green_check Small_green_check
Total Placement Small_green_check Small_green_check
Retention Small_green_check Small_green_check
Nontraditional Participation Small_green_check Small_red_x
Nontraditional Completion Small_red_x Small_red_x

Key:

  • Small_green_check - Yes
  • Small_red_x - No
  • Small_blue_line - Data unavailable

The data for 2003-2004 in the above chart was taken directly from the Consolidated Annual Reports (CAR Report 2003-04). The CAR is a mandatory fiscal and accountability report submitted by each state to the U.S. Department of Education. It provides performance information on 14 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.

The data for 2004-2005 was taken from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998, Report to Congress on State Performance, Program Year 2004-05, Washington, D.C., 2007.

Last updated on 02/20/2008