Gov. Dan Malloy wants Connecticut’s vocation-technical high schools to be controlled by local school districts, eventually setting up a funding system similar to magnet schools where there is a sharing of costs.
In his budget proposal Wednesday, Malloy said the state’s technical high schools will be phased in as local schools. Over the two years of the budget, the schools will be finance by the state, but over time all 16 schools will be either locally funded or set up like Regional Education Service Centers, much like the way magnet schools are run.
The funding formula would not include a reimbursement to the local level, but a sharing of costs, said Benjamin Barnes, secretary of the Office of Policy & Management.
Malloy’s budget called for a level of school reform where students are required to take more math and science classes to graduate.
