Chandler Unified School District’s Governing Board did not have career and technical education spending and the East Valley Institute of Technology as specific items on its most recent meeting agenda, but those topics were discussed anyway.
CUSD board member Kurt Rohrs said, after Chandler Unified Chief Finance Officer Lana Berry had finished her Oct. 8 study-session presentation on the annual financial report, that a Sept. 10 outpouring of public input about career and technical education funding was a false alarm and misguided.
“With CTE funding, there’s a lot going on there, right now,” Rohrs said. “The balance we had at the end of the year was more than $10 million. I know we’re complaining about the cuts they (the EVIT board is) proposing, but I tag that at about $350,000. So with more than $10 million, that’s about 25 or 30 years of excess funding.”
