School Board updated on CTE classes offered at MHHS

On Tuesday October 15, the Mountain Home School Board held their regularly scheduled monthly meeting. Once the meeting was called to order, the Board approved the agenda and the consent agenda.

Mountain Home AFB Liaison, Allen Niksich, gave an update that there are over 700 troops deployed and thanked all the schools for helping with the kids who will be without a parent during the holiday season. Niksich informed the board that they are working on the Veterans Day assembly and field trip. This year’s field trip will be going to the Veterans Home and doing different activities with them.

Mountain Home High School Principal, Sam Gunderson, gave the board a report on how the Career and Technical Education classes are doing. The CTE program gives high school students the chance to get a head start on careers and college classes. The CTE programs offered at MHHS are Business, IT, Computer Science, Ag – Welding, Automotive, Health Occupations and Family and Consumer Science. The High School gets funding for these programs through the State’s CTE funds, Perkins Grant funds and the teachers must also have a certain license to be CTE qualified and endorsed. There are different classes which are part of a pathway or a cluster. A pathway means the student can get a certification such as Certified Nursing Assistant. The pathway classes are also capstone, so the students take a double block class or two periods a day.For the full story, pick up a copy of the Mountain Home News or click on this link to subscribe to the newspaper's online edition.