The Central Vermont Career Center (CVCC) is a regional career and technical education (CTE) school that has been operated by the Spaulding School District Board and, more recently, by the Barre Unified Union School District Board. Though CVCC provides students from Cabot, Harwood, Montpelier-Roxbury, Spaulding, Twinfield, and U-32, with opportunities to experience real world technical work preparing for postsecondary and careers, Barre voters have had sole control over its budget. Under state law, a regional tech center that is attached to a specific sending school district must have a Regional Advisory Board (RAB). The RAB allows other voices to influence outcomes in an advisory manner. You may be aware that CVCC has been exploring the potential of a new governance structure. The new structure would create a new Central VT Career Center District which would be governed by a board representative of all of our sending schools.
The governance committee began its work in April of this year to develop articles of agreement and bylaws for a potential new Central VT Career Center School District. Some highlights of those articles include that the new Central VT Career Center School District (CVCCSD) would have 10 members total, 4 at large from the four largest districts and, the other 6, appointed by their sending school district board. Votes for both the new governance model and the at large board members will be commingled across 18 towns. We would retain the BEA bargaining agreement, once reached, for its duration. The proposed formation plan report has been compiled and approved by the Agency of Education and the State Board of Education. Now it is time to VOTE our 18 sending school towns can vote on March 1, 2022 to support our new governance structure and identify our at large board members. We still need to identify two at large Board members to run as write ins one for Montpelier-Roxbury School District and one for Washington Central UU School District. Should this be approved by voters, our transition board - both elected and appointed board members - would begin preparing for the opening of the new district on July 1, 2022.
Our state data shows that students who attend Career and Technical Education programs are more likely to stay in Vermont, let's capitalize on that together. This new district representation will allow us to make the decisions necessary to support students across central VT to access our programming.
Attend our forum on February 15, 2022 from 6pm - 7pm to learn more. Join in person at the Central VT Career Center, 155 Ayers Street, Suite 2, Barre, VT 05676 Rm 136 or via Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/96863459923?pwd=L1dleDhOQ0VLRzBLTFE0aktnV2dtQT09
Meeting ID: 968 6345 9923, Passcode: 2eDDzB
Here is the link to the frequently asked questions:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AcAN32KYgTZCNU5zy6cIxdGF5uZM4ufh/view
Please Vote! Ballots are being distributed by town/city clerks of all 18 towns that send students to the Central Vermont Career Center (CVCC). These ballots are handled as Absentee ballots. This means that they can be sent out only if requested by the voter.
Why not send them out to all voters? The Career Center wanted to do that, but since we are currently part of the Barre Supervisory District and not our own entity, there isn't a board to make that request that ballots be sent to all voters. The Barre Supervisory Union does not have the authority to do so, either. The CVCC ballots must be requested.
Email or call if you have any questions.
Respectfully,
Flor Díaz Smith
Governance Study Committee Chair
Central Vermont Career Center
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