State Profile For South Dakota

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State Director

Mr. Mark Wilson, State Director
Career Technical Education, SD Dept of Education
700 Governors Drive
Pierre, SD 57501

Web Site

http://doe.sd.gov/octe/index.asp

Mission

The mission of Career and Technical Education in South Dakota is to provide all students with the skills necessary to make informed career choices and be productive workers and lifelong learners in a technological, information-based society.

CTE Statistics

Number of Public High Schools:	175
Number of Public High Schools Offering Solely (or primarily) CTE courses:	5
Number of Students in Public High Schools:	39,585
Number of Secondary Students Enrolled in CTE:	25,133
Number of Public Community Colleges:	4
Number of Students at Public Community Colleges:	5,293
Number of Postsecondary Students Enrolled in CTE:	4,650
Perkins Funds Received:	$4,845,470

CTE Governance Structure

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

CTE Funding

State Secondary Funding:
State Postsecondary Funding:
Local Secondary Funding:
Local Postsecondary Funding:

State Director Roles and Responsibilities

The State Director has the title of State Director, Office of Career and Technical Education. The Director is a career position who reports to the Secretary of Education. The Director’s primary areas of responsibility are all areas of secondary, postsecondary, and adult career technical education.

CTE Connections to Secondary Education and High School Reform

Career technical education plays a significant role in high school reform efforts. In South Dakota, CTE is a leader in the high school reform movement. The state joined the High Schools That Work reform movement two years ago and presently has 20 high school sites. All of the sites have career and technical education programs.

Implementation of Career Clusters

South Dakota believes that Career Clusters provide the infrastructure for a seamless educational transition between all learner levels. Career Clusters are also seen as tool for career guidance, a platform to organize sequences of courses around, and a way to improve the quality of CTE.
In order to effectively implement Career Clusters, South Dakota has integrated Career Clusters into the state plan. In addition, South Dakota is using several strategies to support the implementation of Career Clusters. For example, the state uses Career Clusters to support effective transitions between secondary and postsecondary education and has created high school registration manuals.
Several delivery methods are being used to implement and deliver Career Clusters including High Schools That Work and Tech Prep.

Indicators

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 02/25/2008