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LISBON -- The Columbiana County Career and Technical Center's 2023 state report card took centerstage at the October CCCTC Board of Education meeting held Oct. 19. The Ohio Department of Education released its annual report cards for school districts across the state on Sept. 14 with the CCCTC receiving an overall rating of 4 stars. The state scale describes that rating as "meeting state standards."
In the past a letter grade has been issued. This is the first year Ohio schools and districts received overall ratings of 1 to 5 stars in half-star increments, career centers are given those increments in four areas -- achievement, post-program placement, graduation rate, and career and post-secondary readiness.
According to the ODE, the grade for the CCCTC is not based solely on the performance of the CCCTC, but is based on the performance of the Career-Technical Planning District (CTPD) which is "a local education agency configuration (comprehensive district, compact/contract district, or joint vocational school district) that meets the minimum requirements of law and subsequent standards to offer state-sanctioned career-technical programming." Assistant Superintendent Jeremy Corbisello explained that results for this report card include CCCTC, Southern Local, United Local, Utica Shale Academy, and Wellsville.
The CTPD received three stars with a 75.1 percent overall passage rate. Individually, the CCCTC had a 91 percent passage rate which was then averaged together with the passage rates of the other schools in the CTPD in order to obtain the average.
In the measure of post program placement, the CCCTC received four stars with a 94 percent placement rate of graduates who were employed, enrolled, or enlisted.
In the measure of career and post-secondary education, the CCCTC received four stars as 65.7 percent of its graduates earned 12-point credentials while 93.1 percent earned at least one credential.
The CCCTC excelled graduation rate, the CCCTC received five stars with a 95.5 percent four-year graduation rate and a 98.4 percent five-year graduation rate. The center also excelled in the financial data measure. Corbisello said that while this measure does not receive a rating, it is published so the public can see how schools are spending their funding. Also, the CCCTC spent 73.8 percent of funds on classroom instruction -- ranking first of out 13 similarly-sized schools.
In grant news, the board accepted grant funding of $61,346 from the State of Ohio for the Talent Ready Grant Program. The new grant is meant to support short-term certificate programs at Ohio's community colleges and technical centers to quickly qualify Ohioans to work in growing industries. In other money matters, the board approved the operating bills ($814,349.60) and financial statement ($9,892,157.23), as well as youth club budgets. Also, The Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School as was aStrollo Architects professional fee proposal for the Emerging Careers Projects.
The board also approved several personnel items, accepting the resignation of Rosa Pritchard as Adult Education Nursing Coordinator, and approving several adult education instructors (Deborah Arter-Draa, Laurence McLaughlin and Ruth Ann Mullen), a seasonal employee (Stephanie Coie) and classified substitute (John Moretz) for employment.
The board also revised sections of board policy and added new policies dealing with students with seizures and board of revision complaints and countercomplaints.
In announcements, the board heard that 100 CCCTC students in September had perfect attendance. The perfect attendance student of the month and winner of a $25 Dunkin gift card was Interactive Multimedia student Caleb Pursley of Columbiana. Jasmine Rodriguez, a senior Information Technology Academy from Columbiana, was chosen as the October student of the month. The Drug Free Team kickoff was held during October with 117 students signing up to become members of the Drug Free Team -- an increase over the past two years. The annual stakeholder's meeting and advisory committee meetings set for November 2 was also announced.
The next board meeting will be at 7 p.m. on Nov. 21.
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