State Profile For Vermont

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State Director

Mr. John Fischer, Coordinator, Career & Technical Education
Division of Lifelong Learning, Vermont Department of Education
120 State Street
Montpelier, VT 05620

CTE Web Site(s) as Applicable

Secondary: http://education.vermont.gov/new/html/pgm_teched/programs.html

Career Readiness Certification Program: http://www.ccv.edu/careerreadyvt

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:

CTE Statistics

Number of Public High Schools: 65
Number of Public High Schools Offering Solely (or primarily) CTE courses: 0
Number of Students in Public High Schools: 30,041
Number of Secondary Students Enrolled in CTE: 5,065
Number of Public Community Colleges: 1
Number of Students at Public Community Colleges: 5,515
Number of Postsecondary Students Enrolled in CTE: 4,112
Perkins Funds Received: $4,454,108

CTE Governance Structure

Perkins Eligible Agency: Department of Education
Agency Administering Secondary CTE: Department of Education
Agency Administering Postsecondary CTE: Vermont State College System
Programmatic Control For Secondary CTE: Board of Trustees for VT State Colleges
Programmatic Control For Postsecondary CTE: State Board of Education

CTE Funding: Non-Perkins

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Local Postsecondary Funding: N/A

State Director Roles and Responsibilities

The State Director has the title of Coordinator of Career and Technical Education. 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 secondary regional center and comprehensive high school CTE programs, funding, grants (State and Federal including Perkins), data, postsecondary CTE, assessments, program standards, and industry alignment.

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. The State Director is providing support and taking part in conversations related to the state’s high school reforms efforts.

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.
Vermont has adopted the national career cluster/pathway model as a fundamental structure for programming and longitudinal data collection at the secondary and postsecondary levels. We also identified 6 super clusters to guide grade 9 & 10 introductory programming. Vermont currently offers CTE programming in 14 clusters and 33 pathways. The 6 super clusters are:

Implementation levels of programs of study