COLORADO 4. Construction of Area Schools Two area school facilities will be provided--Adams County and Southeast Colorado Area Schools. The schools will offer programs in all vocational fields. 5. Ancillary Services The legislature allocated funds for planning new college campuses in El Paso and Denver Counties. The annual workshop as well as other State-wide and regional workshops will be used to upgrade teachers. A research section will be organized with coordination of research activities sponsored by the Board as its main function. Pilot projects will be implemented in the areas of special needs and guidance. The State Board will assume many functions now being carried by the Research Coordinating Unit. Follow-up studies are being conducted and machinery developed to do a better job of following up graduates of secondary and post-secondary programs. Evaluation of State staff and programs is a continuing effort. The Research Coordinating Unit has worked closely with agencies, groups, and individuals in the assessing of manpower and employment needs. Area labor market letters, periodicals, and monthly bulletins on manpower needs and projections put out by the State Labor Depart. ment are also used in assessing needs for the establishment and/or expansion of vocational and technical education programs. 2. Program Offerings A number of new programs are to be added in all the occupational fields this fiscal year. Additional teachers will be needed. 3. Program Priorities High School · It is anticipated that the State Legislature will appropriate approximately $9,600,000 for expansion of facilities for 1967-69. The projections include additions to eight of the regional vocational-technical schools and the construction of a new technical school in the Milford-Stratford area. These additions will accommodate approximately 1,200 additional students in the day trade program. Post-High School The State needs additional staff in distributive education, office and health occupations in the community colleges. A new one-year pretechnical institute program is planned for high school graduates to enable them to meet entrance requirements of the technical institutes. Additional equipment will be needed for most of the programs with the exception of the agriculture program. Plans are underway for construction of additional facilities at three of the State technical institutes at a cost of $3,908,000. Adult Additional staff are anticipated in several of the occupational fields. New courses are planned in agriculture, health occupations, home economics, technical education, and trades and industry. Persons with Special Needs In addition to the four occupational technical centers at Bridgeport, Danbury, Hartford, and Norwalk, it is anticipated that the State Legislature will approve construction of two additional occupational centers to accommodate people with special needs. Projections also include specific occupational labora tories for serving students with special needs in 20 additional communities at a minimum expenditure of $500,000 for facilities, equipment, and staff. Part of the cost will be assumed by the local CONNECTICUT 4. Construction of Area Schools Projected plans call for additional area technical institutes provided the legislature appropriates the funds requested. This will make a total of 16, which will make training more accessible for the citizens of Connecticut. 5. Ancillary Services Efforts are being made to strengthen local district supervision by giving department heads released time for this purpose. State-wide workshops on leadership development are being planned for teachers and supervisors. Current plans are underway to upgrade the Bureau of Technical Institutes within the Division of Vocational Education to the Division of Technical Colleges. In-service offerings at the graduate level in teacher education will be expanded in all fields as well as a series of workshops conferences and seminars provided by both the Central Connecticut State College and the University of Connecticut. The Research Coordinating Unit will conduct several research projects in fiscal year 1968. Survey studies to determine needs for new programs in oceanography, graphic arts, and aerospace will be done. 6. Request for Transfer of Funds State transferred all Smith-Hughes and George-Barden funds, with the exception of George-Barden Title I funds for home economics and fisheries, to the Vocational Education Act of 1963. From February 1966 to February 1967, Delaware experienced employment gains for 4,500 persons. Total employment for the State reached 215,300 in February 1967, with a total civilian working force of 224,500. Projections of employment indicate that in the heavily industrialized areas of the State (Wilmington and Dover areas), employ. ment opportunities are increasing in construction, distribution, office, and chemical technology occupations. In addition, manpower shortages are indicated in the automotive, personal services, electrical, graphic arts, and commercial food services fields. A continuous growth rate is expected in agriculture, especially in the specialized agricultural occupations. The emerging health care and welfare programs will bring about a steady increase in health and personal services occupational opportunities. Progressive growth is expected in the office and food services occupations to serve particularly the manpower needs of the State's governmental industry. 2. Program Offerings All three counties offer instructional programs in each of the seven vocational education areas. Within the next two years the entire State will be served more comprehensively by area vocational schools (including a technical and community college), offering occupational education both at the secondary and post-secondary levels. 3. Program Priorities High School New teachers will be needed in the various occupational areas. Equipment will be purchased to support the new and expanding instructional programs in distributive education, health occupations, and office education. Combination classroom-vocational office occupations laboratories will be provided in all schools for the office education programs. Post High School New or additional occupational fields will be developed and offered in agriculture, distributive education, office occupations, and technical education. The former William C. Jason Comprehensive High School, Georgetown (site and plant), will be renovated and adapted for use by the southern campus of the Delaware Technical and Community College. Adult The adult programs are offered in the State's regular high school facilities, its county vocational-technical centers, and the Technical and Community College. Persons with Special Needs - Persons with special needs enrolled in agriculture, distributive education, home economics, office education, and health occupations programs will be, for the most part, served in DELAWARE needed individual attention to reach their potentials. Plans are underway in connection with trade and industrial education to provide an industrial orientation and basic skills (language skills, etc.) program for boys and girls in the seventh to ninth grades who are potential dropouts. Also, a series of RCU sponsored pilot projects are being proposed to foster student motivation through occupational orientation, remediation, and appropriate work experience. 4. Construction of Area Vocational Schools Two new area vocational schools are being constructed or renovated: New Castle County (complete) Vocational High School, to be in operation September 1969, and the Georgetown Branch of the Delaware Technical and Community College (a renovation of an existing facility), to be in operation September 1967. The latter will operate under a separate State Board for Technical and Community Colleges. 5. Ancillary Services New teacher education programs in home economics will be initiated 6. Transfer of Funds With the exception of $3,100 Smith-Hughes teacher training funds and a request was made to transfer all other Smith-Hughes and George- 7. Estimated Expenditures Estimated Total Expenditures under all the Vocational Education Acts (in thousands) |