Career and Technical Education Programs. Career and Technical Education (CTE) is a planned program of courses and learning experiences that begins with exploration of career options and supports basic academic and life skills. CTE instruction is delivered through programs at middle and high schools, through approved online courses, and at skill centers.

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Career and Technical Education ?Funding. The prototypical school model provides funding for CTE courses offered at the middle school and high school level. This funding is calculated using CTE-specific student-to-teacher ratios and per-pupil amounts for materials, supplies, and operating costs (MSOC). MSOC funds are currently provided for exploratory CTE courses offered in grades 7 to 12, preparatory CTE courses offered in grades 9 to 12, and preparatory CTE courses offered in grades 11 to 12 through a skill center.

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Funding for exploratory CTE courses is expanded from grades 7? to 12 to grades 6 to 12 offered in a middle or high school.

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School districts may only receive funding for middle school preparatory CTE courses if those courses are developed within a planned program of study that provides a nonduplicative progression of aligned CTE opportunities across both middle and high school.

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Middle and high school CTE courses must be treated as a single program when accounting for and calculating minimum expenditures, carryover amounts, and recovery amounts. This treatment is exclusively for accounting purposes and must not result in disparate program quality across grade levels.