State Profile For West Virginia

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State Director

Dr. Stanley Hopkins, Assistant State Superintendent
West Virginia Department of Education
1900 Kanawha Boulevard E.
Charleston, WV 25305

CTE Web Site(s) as Applicable

Secondary: http://careertech.k12.wv.us

Mission

The mission of career/technical & adult education is to facilitate the delivery of high-quality education, statewide, through leadership and coordination activities focused on instruction, content, improvement, professional development, technical assistance, planning, evaluation, fiscal management, and accountability.

CTE Statistics

Number of Public High Schools:	119
Number of Public High Schools Offering Solely (or primarily) CTE courses:	31
Number of Students in Public High Schools:	78,248
Number of Secondary Students Enrolled in CTE:	83,900
Number of Public Community Colleges:	3
Number of Students at Public Community Colleges:	9,619
Number of Postsecondary Students Enrolled in CTE:	21,871
Perkins Funds Received:	$9,305,887

CTE Governance Structure

Perkins Eligible Agency:	West Virginia Community and Technical College Council
Agency Administering Secondary CTE:	Department of Education
Agency Administering Postsecondary CTE:	Department of Education, Department of Labor, West Virginia Community and Technical College Council, and West Virginia Workforce Investment Council
Programmatic Control For Secondary CTE:	State Board of Education
Programmatic Control For Postsecondary CTE:	West Virginia Community and Technical College Council

CTE Funding

State Secondary Funding:
State Postsecondary Funding:
Local Secondary Funding:
Local Postsecondary Funding:

State Director Roles and Responsibilities

The State Director has the title of Assistant State Superintendent of Schools. The Director is a career position that reports to the State Superintendent of Schools. The Director’s primary areas of responsibility are secondary and adult career technical education and adult basic education.

CTE Connections to Secondary Education and High School Reform

Career technical education plays a significant role in high school reform efforts. In West Virginia, the Division of Career/Technical and Adult Education oversees the SREB High Schools that Work initiative, involving 75% of all high schools. The Division also has overseen the development of a statewide taskforce focused on improving high schools and is currently reporting the results to the State Board of Education. The State Director is a senior member of the State Superintendent’s Cabinet and has significant input into policies and decisions affecting high schools in the State.

Implementation of Career Clusters

West Virginia believes that Career Clusters are the basis for high school reform and provide the infrastructure for a seamless educational transition between all learner levels. Career Clusters are also seen as tool for career guidance, a platform to organize sequences of courses around, and a way to improve the quality of CTE.
In order to effectively implement Career Clusters, West Virginia has adopted a state policy that supports Career Clusters and has integrated them into the state plan. In addition, the state has passed legislation in support of Career Clusters. In addition, West Virginia has adopted several strategies to help with the implementation of Career Clusters. For example, the state uses Career Clusters to support effective transitions between secondary and postsecondary education. The state also requires Career Clusters to collect accountability information and has redirected state resources and personnel to support Career Clusters.
Several delivery methods are being used to implement Career Clusters, including High Schools That Work, Tech Prep, and high school reform efforts.

Indicators

The data for 2003-2004 in the above chart was taken directly from the Consolidated Annual Reports (CAR Report 2003-04). The CAR is a mandatory fiscal and accountability report submitted by each state to the U.S. Department of Education. It provides performance information on 14 Perkins indicators. A red X means a state did not meet its adjusted level of performance and a green checkmark means that the state did meet its goal.A blue bar in the Secondary Indicators table means that the state does not offer students the opportunity to earn both a high school diploma and other credential (e.g., a skill certificate) or that the data was not otherwise provided by the state. A blue bar in the Postsecondary Indicators table indicates that the state did not provide data.

The data for 2004-2005 was taken from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998, Report to Congress on State Performance, Program Year 2004-05, Washington, D.C., 2007.

Last updated on 02/25/2008