After more than a year of legal wrangling, nine East Valley school districts and the East Valley Institute of Technology have hammered out a new agreement that affects thousands of career and technical education students this school year.
In exchange for reducing “pass through” funding to CTE satellite programs on various school campuses, EVIT will foot the bill to transport students from schools to its main campus in Mesa. Transportation had been a local district expense under past agreements.
Last fall, Queen Creek, Chandler, Gilbert, Higley, Cave Creek, Apache Junction, Fountain Hills, J.O. Combs and Tempe Union school districts sued EVIT when the tech school attempted to reduce the percentage of state funds it doles out to the districts for satellite programs, citing a state audit as its rationale.
