The new system, which would go into effect in the 2026-27 school year, would enter any students who attend a vocational technical orientation session while still in middle school into the lottery.

May 10—Efforts to meet the overwhelming demand for a vocational-technical high school education has long stumped the state's secondary education establishment. With good reason. The commonwealth ...

According to the most recent state data, in the 2023-2024 school year, the state’s 26 vocational technical high schools received 20,335 applications for 10,305 first-year seats.

In the summer of 2020, the district piloted the program at Carver Vocational-Technical High School. The Home Builders Institute offered the program to veterans and former inmates.

Efforts to meet the overwhelming demand for a vocational-technical high school education has long stumped the state’s secondary education establishment. With good reason. The commonwealth’s 28 ...