Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School Awarded Funding Through Workforce Skills Capital Grants Program

Awarded $181,778, the school will create a Marine Service Technology program for both day and evening students. The program will be able to provide this STEM-based educational opportunity to high school students, as well as students who are unemployed, displaced, veterans, or incumbent workers looking to further their careers through our evening school program.

A focus of the more recent grant awards has been the launch and expansion of Governor Baker’s Career Technical Initiative, which supports vocational-technical schools in expanding their impact by operating programs in the afternoons for local high school students and in the evenings for workers and adult learners.

From June of 2017 through August 2021, Massachusetts Skills Capital Grant Program has awarded $30,694,090 to vocational technical and agricultural schools/programs.

Whittier was among those receiving up to $3.3 million as part of the second round of FY22 funding, announced this week by the Baker-Polito Administration. 

Since 2015, 407 grants totaling more than $105.5 million have been awarded to 207 different schools and educational institutions across the Commonwealth, with many organizations receiving multiple grants over the years. The state’s investment also helped institutions leverage the grants to gain an additional $25 million in local matching funds.

This funding comes during the month of February, which is recognized nationwide as CTE Month. The month is a chance to celebrate the values and achievements of CTE programs and the work they do.