The State Board of Regents and the State Board of Education & Early Development held a joint meeting June 3, 2015. Agenda items included UA’s concurrent enrollment definition and Regents’ policy; UA's College Readiness definition; Alaska teacher education; and K-12 standards and assessments and their alignment with UA.

For more details about the meeting, please visit any of the following:

·         Board of Regents meeting documents: http://www.boarddocs.com/ak/alaska/Board.nsf/Public

·         Board of Education meeting documents: http://education.alaska.gov/State_Board/pdf/15-June-Packet.pdf

·         Alaska Business Monthly Magazine article: http://www.akbizmag.com/Education/UA-Board-of-Regents-meets-with-State-Board-of-Education-and-Foundation-Board-of-Trustees/

  
The Alaska Department of Education & Early Development CTE office has launched its CTE Newsletter to provide information, resources, and highlights of upcoming CTE opportunities around the state. They are asking for examples and stories of local successes and ideas for topics to address in future newsletters. 

Members of the EED CTE Listserv will receive the newsletters. If you would like to join the list to receive future newsletters, please email Thomasina Andersen at thomasina.andersen@alaska.gov.

To read the entire April 30, 2015 edition as a PDF document, click on the graphic below.

The Pathways to Prosperity Network is now two years old, with eight state members—California, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, Ohio, and Tennes_see—doing significant work in creating career pathways in grades 9-14. Two more states, Arizona and Delaware, joined the Network in June 2014. This report is a letter to the field about what’s been accomplished to date. As is often the case in such initiatives, the results thus far are due to a combination of good luck, good timing, deep knowledge of implementation, and a simple but urgent message and strategy. The unique stories of the developments in each state are included in this report as well as observation and description of key aspects of this work across the states in the Network as a group.

Download or read the report here.

Story from KCAW about the Design and Fabrication program started at Sitka High School in 2012, which is now being replicated by other secondary and postsecondary programs in the state. The original Sitka program and the current Bristol Bay Campus program are partially supported by funding from state CTE Plan grants.