One item approved by the Chandler Unified School District Governing Board at its Aug. 21 meeting is an intergovernmental agreement for career and technical education.
The district will spend …
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EDUCATION
Chandler School board keeps CTE consortium membership
Courtesy of Chandler USD
Lindsay Duran, the director of the district’s CTE program, addresses the Chandler Unified School District Governing Board at its Aug. 21 meeting. The board voted unanimously to approve a new agreement with a consortium that provides career and technical education instructional materials and other resources.
One item approved by the Chandler Unified School District Governing Board at its Aug. 21 meeting is an intergovernmental agreement for career and technical education.
The district will spend about $20,000 on its 2024-25 membership with the Pima County Joint Technical Education District. That organization is the fiscal agent for the Arizona CTE Curriculum Consortium, which creates, maintains and revises instructional materials CTE high school programs in CUSD and other districts.
Lindsay Duran, the director of the district’s CTE program, pointed out the curriculum is for a “duplicated CTE enrollment count” of 7,708. She explained that’s higher than the actual CUSD head count of high school students enrolled in at least one program, as some are enrolled in more than one of the district’s 21 separate CTE programs.
The CUSD board first approved an agreement with the consortium in June 2013. It was renewed and signed in 2016 and again in 2020.
Duran also pointed out that consortium participation allows CUSD teachers to receive “quality professional development,” as well as access to the consortium’s online electronic library of CTE instructional materials That library includes 1,000 common designed lessons for more than 21 CTE programs, she said.
EVIT, the East Valley Institute of Technology, which has partnerships with Chandler Unified, is also a member of the consortium, Duran said.
Jason W. Brooks is a News editor for the Daily Independent and the Chandler Independent.
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