State Profile For Ohio

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

State Director

Dr. Kathy Shibley, State Director
Career-Technical and Adult Education, Ohio Department of Education
25 South Front Street
Columbus, OH 43215

CTE Web Site(s) as Applicable

Secondary: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/Templates/Pages/ODE/ODEPrimary.aspx?page=2&TopicRelationID=2

Postsecondary: http://regents.ohio.gov/perkins/

Mission

The Ohio Career-Technical and Adult Education mission is to provide quality programs and services to meet the lifelong career education needs of Ohio’s youth and adults. The system creates, maintains and empowers the workforce of today and tomorrow and is critical to the economic future of Ohio.

CTE Statistics

Number of Public High Schools:	897
Number of Public High Schools Offering Solely (or primarily) CTE courses:	72
Number of Students in Public High Schools:	483,905
Number of Secondary Students Enrolled in CTE:	137,961
Number of Public Community Colleges:	23
Number of Students at Public Community Colleges:	164,363
Number of Postsecondary Students Enrolled in CTE:	100,522
Perkins Funds Received:	$49,419,101

Number of Adult Students Enrolled in CTE:	132,137

CTE Governance Structure

Perkins Eligible Agency:	Department of Education
Agency Administering Secondary CTE:	Department of Education
Agency Administering Postsecondary CTE:	Board of Regents
Programmatic Control For Secondary CTE:	State Board of Education
Programmatic Control For Postsecondary CTE:	Board of Regents

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

The State Director has the title of State Director for Career-Technical Education. The Director is a career position that reports to the Associate Superintendent of the Center for Curriculum and Assessment. The Director is responsible for all administrative areas related to secondary career-technical education and implementation of the Carl D. Perkins of 2006 State Plan.

CTE Connections to Secondary Education and High School Reform

Career technical education plays a significant role in high school reform efforts. State-approved academic content standards are embedded with technical content standards to encourage and support educators in integrating and reinforcing academic standards through career-technical instruction. Ohio’s Perkins IV State Plan calls for all secondary CTE programs to become Tech Prep which means that they will be 1) based upon a Program of Study, 2) include coursework that seamlessly transitions from secondary to postsecondary study, 3) meet the rigorous core secondary graduation requirements instituted as a foundation for high school reform and 4) prepare students for non-remedial postsecondary study.

Implementation of Career Clusters

Ohio has committed to full implementation of the 16 nationally-recognized Career Clusters. Ohio has adopted state administrative rules that support Career Clusters and has integrated them into the state plan. Several strategies are currently supporting these policies. All technical content standards reflect a Career Cluster framework which includes both breadth and depth. Each Cluster technical content standards document includes embedded academic content standards and an emphasis on core business processes/systems as well as technical competencies appropriate to Cluster pathways and occupational specializations. Ohio is supporting the enactment of Career Cluster curriculum with the following resources: curriculum models (e.g., a model course of study or scope and sequence), inquiry-based projects as a framework for instruction and teacher institutes to prepare teachers for teaching core business processes, integrating academic and technical standards and using inquiry-based teaching strategies. Ohio also requires accountability information to be collected by Career Clusters.
Ohio names their clusters somewhat differently:

• Agricultural and Environmental Systems


• Arts and Communications


• Business and Administrative Services


• Construction Technologies


• Education and Training


• Engineering and Science Technologies


• Finance


• Government and Public Administration


• Health Science


• Hospitality and Tourism


• Human Services


• Information Technology


• Law and Public Safety


• Manufacturing Technologies


• Marketing


• Transportation Systems

Implementation levels of programs of study

• Secondary and 2-year Postsecondary: all 16 nationally-recognized career clusters 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

Data Sources used on this profile:

• Ohio Data Warehouse 2008-2009
• CAR 2008
• Ohio Information Technology Office (ITO) 2007-2008
• Ohio Community Colleges Association website information

Last updated on 09/17/2009