State Profile For Vermont

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State Director

Ms. Kay Charron, Acting Division Director
Career & Workforce Development, Vermont Department of Education
120 State Street
Montpelier, VT 05620

Web Site

http://www.state.vt.us/educ/new/html/pgm_teched.html

Mission

Career and technical education is an integral part of Vermont’s K-12 public education system. It will support students in their acquisition of the knowledge and skills identified in the Vermont Framework of Standards and Learning Opportunities and those specific skills needed to pursue rewarding post secondary opportunities including education and careers by:

• Supporting career development throughout the K-12 system


• Providing career preparation through instruction based on Framework and industry standards.


• Providing, in partnership with colleges and other stakeholders, post-secondary school education and training needed for success.

CTE Statistics

Number of Public High Schools:	47
Number of Public High Schools Offering Solely (or primarily) CTE courses:	17
Number of Students in Public High Schools:	28,722
Number of Secondary Students Enrolled in CTE:	5,065
Number of Public Community Colleges:	1
Number of Students at Public Community Colleges:	5,591
Number of Postsecondary Students Enrolled in CTE:	4,112
Perkins Funds Received:	$4,561,303

CTE Governance Structure

Perkins Eligible Agency:	Department of Education
Agency Administering Secondary CTE:	Department of Education
Agency Administering Postsecondary CTE:	Regional Advisory Board
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 Director of the Division of Lifelong Learning. The Director’s position is a career position that reports to the Commissioner of the Department of Education. The Director’s primary areas of responsibility are focused on early education; elementary/middle level education; secondary (including high school and career technical education); and Adult education and literacy.

CTE Connections to Secondary Education and High School Reform

Career technical education plays a significant role in high school reform efforts. Vermont is moving forward on its high school reform effort, “High Schools on the Move.” CTE is an integral part of this effort and is involved, as are all other secondary schools, in visits and related activities.

Implementation of Career Clusters

Vermont believes that Career Clusters are a platform to organize sequences of courses and instruction around. The state also believes Career Clusters can serve as a tool to provide career guidance for students and help improve the quality of CTE overall.
In order to effectively implement Career Clusters, Vermont has integrated Career Clusters into its state plan. Several strategies currently support the implementation of Career Clusters. Vermont now requires local Perkins plans to incorporate Career Clusters and all accountability information is to be collected by Career Clusters. The state has benchmarked existing program standards against Career Cluster knowledge and skill statements and is using Career Clusters to support effective transitions between secondary and postsecondary education.
Several delivery methods are being used to implement Career Clusters, including career academies, High Schools That Work, Tech Prep and high school reform efforts.

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 02/20/2008