Hillsborough County Public Schools Curriculum and Instruction
Action Item

DATE: Tuesday, July 11, 2006
TO: School Board Members
FROM: MaryEllen Elia, Superintendent

SUBJECT / RECOMMENDATIONS

Approve Renewal Tech Prep Articulation Agreements with Hillsborough Community College for Secondary Programs (Technical and Career Education)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

For the past fourteen years, the School District and Hillsborough Community College (HCC) have worked collaboratively in implementing Tech-Prep Programs of Study districtwide and collegewide. One major component has been the establishment of articulation agreements allowing district secondary students the opportunity to enter degree-seeking programs at the community college.

Agreements have been updated to allow secondary students to be awarded college credit for completed high school programs: Vision Care Assisting students can earn 5 credits in Ophthalmic Dispensing Program; Academy of Finance students can earn 6 credits in Accounting Technology; and American Sign Language students can earn 4 credits in Sign Language Interpretation.

ANNUAL DISTRICT GOAL(S) AND CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR(S)

All District Goals and Critical Success Factors.

FINANCIAL IMPACT (Budgeted: Yes)

The secondary programs earn FTE and are included in the general operating budget. These articulation agreements have no additional cost to the District.

EVALUATION

SUBMITTED BY: Robert Moccia, Supervisor, Diversified and Marketing Education 
Cosette Whitmore, Ph.D., Supervisor, Health Science and Public Service Education 
Dorothy Carregal, Supervisor, K-12 Foreign Languages

Pamela Campbell-Peralta
General Director, Technical and Career Education
(813) 231-1860 		Michael A. Grego, Ed.D.
Assistant Superintendent, Curriculum and Instruction
(813) 272-4221
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