Vermont CTE Governance and Funding Recommendations

Prepared for the Vermont Agency of Education in 2025

The Vermont Agency of Education (AOE) contracted with Augenblick, Palaich and Associates, Inc. (APA) in December 2023 to support the AOE in implementing its state plan to improve career technical education (CTE) in Vermont as informed by the March 2023 legislative report, Study on the Funding and Governance of Career Technical Education in Vermont (authorized by Act 127 of 2022, Section 171), prepared by APA and its partner National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE). This report documents the study team’s implementation recommendations related to specific CTE governance, funding, and AOE staffing findings in the Act 127 report. The study team preformed an in-depth examination of the available data, mapped current program offerings across the state, engaged stakeholders across the system through surveys, and convened a group identified by the AOE to serve as the CTE Design Advisory to provide advice and feedback to the study team throughout the year.

The study team developed several recommendations related to governance, teacher quality, CTE programming, quality assurance and monitoring, and CTE funding.