Announcements

Carl Perkins Grant Fiscal Year 2026 (Current grant cycle)

• 25th of Each Month- Deadline to submit cash requests for processing and payment on the 10th of each month
• June 10th- deadline for the last June payment. If your district has not completed a Cash Request, it MUST be in by this date.
• Last day to obligate funds: June 30^th
• Last day to create amendments: June 30^th 
• Last Date to liquidate funds: July 25^th 
• August 25th- Perkins 2026 Final Expenditure Reports are due.  If you are late submitting your FER- it will result in keeping the entire state from receiving final allocations

Carl Perkins Fiscal Year 2027 (Next school year grant)

• Opening May 2026
• CLNA is REQUIRED for ALL Applicants this year.
• June 30- DUE Date for Perkins 2027 Application
• OPI Perkins resources
• OCHE CLNA Resources
• Perkins preliminary allocations for FY 2027 are attached and will also be available on the Perkins Page

Infinate Campus Reporting - End of Year Data Collection

• June 19- CTE End of Year Data Collection is DUE in Infinite Campus.
• End of Year Career and Technical Education: May 11 - June 19, 2026
  This data is used for a variety of purposes to include funding determinations, as well as other state and federally mandated reporting. Identify all high school students with Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses for the 2025-26 school year,
  including Pathway(s), Dual Enrollment, Out of District Credits, and Work-Based Learning.   

• Extended Contract Days for CTE Teachers (reach out to your CTE specialist for more information on what qualifies as Extended Contract Days) has been a separate collection for the last several years.  This information is now collected in the educator's District Assignment in Infinite Campus.  Please review the District Assignments for educators with Extended Contract Days to ensure they are accurate for 2025-26 (this may require ending a prior Assignment at the end of 2024-25 and creating a new assignment for 2025-26, if the contract days are different for 25-26 than they were for 24-25)  In addition to Extended Contract Days, districts should be running validations for CTE Courses.  Ensure that courses are correctly indicated with Pathway and Credit.  This will help with the End of Year CTE Collection.

 

Work-Based Learning Licensure Cohort 

A Professional learning opportunity for teachers, counselors, administrators and others. 

This Cohort is to create a space for step-by-step support toward the Montana WBL Licensure options, provide guidance on required documentation, discuss best practices for High-Quality WBL programs, provide tools for building employer partnerships as well as create a network of Montana educators implementing quality WBL. 

Contact ethan.igo@mt.gov or shannon.boswell@mt.gov with questions

High School District Liaisons for CTE

The CTE Specialists have been assigned regionally to schools. The regions are Eastern, Northcentral, Northwest, Southcentral, and Southwest. These assignments will be used to review the 2025- 2026 Perkins Grant application and any remaining 2024-2025 amendments. If you have any questions or need assistance, our team of specialists is available to support you.

 

Montana Career and Technical Education

Guidance Documents 

Below you can find information related to CTE Funding, Montana Career Pathways, Carl Perkins Grant and Data, State CTE Data, Work Based Learning and related topics. If you would like all of this information in one document you can reference that here. The below documents are broken into three different categories; CTE Funding Guidance, CTE Montana Career Pathways, Montana Work Based Learning.

 

Meet the Career & Technical Adult Education Team

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