State Profile For Utah

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State Director

Ms. Mary Shumway, State CTE Director
Utah State Office of Education
250 East 500 South, P.O. Box 144200
Salt Lake City, UT 84114

CTE Web Site(s) as Applicable

Secondary: http://www.schools.utah.gov/cte/

Postsecondary: http://www.utahcte.org

Mission

Mission: Career and Technical Education (CTE) creates pathways to success for every student by providing him or her with the technical skills and academic knowledge needed to prepare for future employment and/or a successful transition to post-secondary education.
Vision: Is to see that every student has the opportunity to explore a variety of career areas, throughout high school, that will equip him or her with the academic knowledge, technical and employment skills vital for entry into the evolving workforce of the 21st century.

CTE Statistics

Number of Public High Schools: 118
Number of Public High Schools Offering Solely (or primarily) CTE courses: 8
Number of Students in Public High Schools: 152,260
Number of Secondary Students Enrolled in CTE: 134,534
Number of Public Community Colleges: 7
Number of Students at Public Community Colleges: 35,796
Number of Postsecondary Students Enrolled in CTE: 54,248
Perkins Funds Received: $13,781,249
Number of Adult Students Enrolled in CTE: 28,237

*Number of students enrolled in CTE are duplicated numbers.
**All students in Utah are required to take 1.5 credits of CTE.

CTE Governance Structure

Perkins Eligible Agency: The Utah State Office of Education
Agency Administering Secondary CTE: The Utah State Office of Education
Agency Administering Postsecondary CTE: Utah System of Higher Education/State Board of Regents
Programmatic Control For Secondary CTE: The Utah State Office of Education
Programmatic Control For Postsecondary CTE: State Board of Regents

CTE Funding: Non-Perkins

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State Director Roles and Responsibilities

The State Director has the title of State Director, Career and Technical Education. The Director’s position is a career position that reports to the Associate Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction. The Director’s primary areas of responsibility are Career and Technical Education, Adult Education, Youth in Custody Comprehensive Guidance, 21st Century Learning Centers (NCLB), Even Start (NCLB), Safe and Drug Free Schools, and Students at Risk Corrections Education, Comprehensive School Counseling and Guidance, Alternative Education, High School Redesign and Post-secondary Transitions.

CTE Connections to Secondary Education and High School Reform

Career technical education plays a significant role in high school reform efforts. In Utah, the CTE director is a member of the governor’s commission on high schools and has been very involved in establishing goals. The State Department of Education has recognized the curriculum director and the CTE director as equal partners on reform committees and efforts. Higher Education and public education CTE staff are helping take the lead on the state’s K-16 initiative. Concurrent/dual enrollment, comprehensive guidance, and career pathway planning efforts are rather mature in the state, but are getting a new spotlight and CTE is part of that leadership. The governor’s commission on high school has adopted one of its goals as Career and Education Pathways with CTE pathways as models. High school reform is being run out of the State Director’s office.

Implementation of Career Clusters

Utah believes Career Clusters provide the infrastructure for seamless educational transition between all learner levels. The state also hopes Career Clusters will benefit students by providing a tool for career guidance and to organize their sequences of courses around.
Utah has developed a cross walk publication to support the implementation of the 16 nationally-recognized Career Clusters. The state has also used career clusters to support effective transitions between secondary and postsecondary education. In addition, Utah utilized existing, strong comprehensive guidance programs; ACRN/UCRN resources to pull together publication information: and CTE staff to develop the sequence of course documents that also support Career Clusters.
Several CTE reforms or delivery methods are being used to support the implementation of Career Clusters, including National Academy Foundation academies, career academies, magnet schools, and TechPrep.


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