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Adult Additional teaching personnel will be needed in all vocational services except office occupations. Wage earning training in home economics will include: child day care services, clothing services, homemakers assistants, and food services. Regular home economics adult classes will train in consumer education and family relations. Law enforcement training will be offered in technical education. The improvement of facilities and the development of new facilities in the area schools and in the community colleges will bear directly upon adult education. There are no special plans for improving facilities solely for this group.

Special Needs - Generally these persons are accommodated in the regular vocational classes. Programs specifically designed for this group will continue to be conducted at three State correctional institutions. A drafting course is being offered at the correctional institution. A building trades course, an office education course, and a home economics wage earning course are to be opended. New equipment will be provided as needed. Construction of new facilities for meat dressing and cutting to be used for combined instructional and service purposes will be completed.

Construction of Area Vocational Schools

Construction of the Helena Area Vocational-Technical School will be completed during the summer of 1967. The Missoula school will not be ready until the 1967-68 school year. The area schools will serve all levels. Programs include agriculture mechanics, electronics, airframe and engines, machine shop, auto mechanics, art and acetylene welding, building construction, practical nursing, business education, diesel mechanics, and wage earning occupations for women.

5. Ancillary Services

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An additional supervisor for distributive education and office occupations, a full-time supervisor for guidance, and a person. to handle statistics and accounting are to be added to the State staff. Teacher training in trade and industrial education will get under way in 1967. An itinerant teacher educator will offer intensive courses for qualified teachers for vocational certificates. Workshops in special education and wage earning in home economics will be conducted. Specialized vocational office education workshops will also be conducted. A curriculum guide for home economics for gainful employment is being developed. The distributive education curriculum guide will be presented for approval to be published. The Research Coordinating Unit will assist in the study of work needs of the State, Evaluation of programs and activities will be continued,

Transfer of Funds

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Summary of Projected Program Activities

1. Manpower Needs and Employment Opportunities

FY 1968

A report issued by the Midwest Association of State Departments of Agriculture identifies 44 percent of Nebraska's labor force employed in production agriculture and agri-business occupations. Manpower outlook surveys conducted in seven Nebraska Employment Service areas give an indication of manpower needs in the State. High on the list are sales personnel, waiter and waitress, auto mechanics and repairmen, cook, bookkeeper and cashier, clerk--office and general, stenographer, typist, and registered nurse.

2. Program Offerings

Programs will operate in 85 of the 93 counties, two more than the previous year. The occupational categories are well represented in the counties. Nine area vocational schools have been designated, eight of which will offer programs in fiscal year 1968. All occupational categories are represented, Every school offers instruction at the post secondary level; two schools offer secondary instruction; five schools, adult; none, persons with special needs. Four vocational. technical schools (one in planning stage), one school of technical agriculture, and four school districts have been designated to serve as area schools,

3. Program Priorities

High School The State will need 153 new teachers, 89 of which are replacements. A total of 57 programs will be added in trade and industrial, office education, diversified occupations, homemaking, distributive, and agriculture.

Post High School New teachers will be needed in the various occupational fields. New occupational offerings include veterinary technology, clothing-management production and services, food service management, lithography, soil technology, agricultural service specialist, petroleum marketing, welding technology, aeronautics (A and P course), medical laboratory assistant, nurse (associate degree), and utilities services.

Adult About 33 new teachers are needed to supplement regularly certified teachers and instructors recruited from industry. New or expanded programs include agricultural mechanics, inventory control (via TV), small business management training, and catering. Adult classes will use the facilities of the full-day school.

Persons with Special Needs Three new teachers are needed for classes established specifically for persons with special needs. Most special needs students are served through the regular vocational programs.

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4. Construction of Area Schools

The vocational technical school to be located at North Platte is in the developmental stage. A special election will be held in June 1967 to determine voter acceptance of a proposed area vocational technical school to serve 14 counties in the northeast section of the State. Construction in the form of remodeling and additional space is contemplated at several of the area schools.

5. Ancillary Services

Additional State staff positions have been requested. State guidance services will conduct a series of workshops to prepare counselors in the use of the General Aptitude Test Battery. Instruction in use of the GATB will be provided by the Division of Employment Security. Curriculum guides will be made available in agriculture and home economics.

6. Transfer of Funds

All Smith-Hughes and George-Barden allotments, with the exception of home economics and a part of Smith-Hughes teacher training allotments, were transferred to the Vocational Education Act of 1963. The amount identified for Smith Hughes home economics was transferred to GeorgeBarden Title I...

7. Estimated Expenditures

Estimated Total Expenditures under all the Vocational Education Acts (in thousands)

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The major growth in employment will be in the categories of services and government. Projected increase in services from FY 1965 to FY 1963 18 6,000 and government employment shows an increase of 1,500. All other categories have increased slightly. State has a higher than average unemployment rate--7.2 percent versus a national average of approximately 3.8-5 percent. Even though the numbers of persons needed in agricultural production have declined, the skill and techni cal level of those who are engaged in agriculture has greatly increased. The most significant manpower needs in agricultural occupations are for trained technicians to fill positions in management, livestock production, range and ranch occupations, agricultural production, distribution of agricultural products, research, and education. Critical shortages also exist in professional agricultural occupations that require a four-year college training program.

Program Offerings

Fourteen of the 17 counties offer vocational programs. (Three counties do not offer vocational programs because of the sparacity of population--total population is 1,841,) Two of the counties have programs in all 7 occupational areas; 3 in 5 areas, 2 in 5 areas, 3 in 4 areas, 3 in 3 areas, and one in one area. The highway depart ment and the general university extension have programs in technical education. The two area vocational schools offer programs in at least five vocational fields.

Program Priorities

High School Program expansion will necessitate approximately 25 new teaching positions in trade and industrial (7), agriculture (2) health occupations (4), office occupations (5), technical (3), and home economics (4). New or additional occupational fields include air frame and power plant, auto body, air conditioning and refrigera tion, increased food service training, health occupations related to medical records clerks, medical assistants, nursing assistants, and home economics for gainful employment. Needed equipment will be purchased. New vocational facilities are being constructed.

Post-High School It is expected that the equivalent of ten full-time teachers will be needed. New or additional programs include a 2-year associate degree program in fashion trades, child day care center supervisor's training, addition to the farm and ranch management, agricultural mechanics, dental technician training, radiological health technician training, and a 2-year associate degree fire service training program. Equipment purchases are planned. Plans for improv ing facilities include a contract for site development to add a $2 million phase to the Southern Nevada Vocational Technical Center and approximately $300,000 building improvement and renovation at the