How is Tri-Tech Funded?
• Tri-Tech is an extension or branch campus of local high schools. Tri-Tech is a public school offering tuition free Career and Technical education. • In the spring of 2007 new language related to the skills center student FTE was adopted. The new rules allow for the following: Taken from the 2007-2008 Enrollment Reporting Handbook, Page 17 – 18 • 2. If a student enrolls in both a high school and a skills center, they may be claimed up to a total 1.60 FTE based upon their enrolled hours. The 1.00 FTE limit applies separately to the high school FTE and the skills center FTE. • Example 1: A student is enrolled in the skills center for three hours a day, five days a week and also is enrolled in their high school for three hours a day, five days a week. • The student’s FTE would be split as follows: 0.60 – for the skills center 0.60 – for the high school • Example 2: A student is enrolled in high school six hours a day, five days a week and also is enrolled in the skills center three hours
