Board approves two additional lottery grants after agency error

The State Board of Career and Technology Education approved two additional lottery grant awards after agency staff told the board those schools had been inadvertently omitted from the prior awards list.

Dr. Lockwood explained that CareerTech receives lottery revenues and allocates them by formula (45% to technology center equipment grants, 45% to K‑12, and 10% for CareerTech educator scholarships). He characterized the missing awards as an administrative error and said the two schools had earned the awards under the rubric used for scoring. “These are 2 schools that were missed and in fairness, we need to come back to you and admit our error and get them their appropriate funding that they earned via the rubric and scoring that we had done,” Dr. Lockwood said.

A board member moved to approve the two additional lottery grants; the motion was seconded and passed on roll call with all present members voting yes.

The grants are funded from lottery revenues that are already in the agency account, agency staff said, and are not projected revenues. The board did not discuss project-level details for the two schools during the public meeting; the agency noted the awards were consistent with the previously adopted rubric and that the correction was to ensure funds went to schools the scoring process had identified.

What happens next: the agency will issue award notices to the two recipients and distribute the funds according to the established grant procedures.