PORT ANGELES — Superintendents and school board members will brainstorm ideas at the inaugural North Olympic Peninsula Skills Center Board of Directors’ dinner meeting today.
The dinner will be from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the skills center at 905 W. Ninth St., Port Angeles.
The skills center offers technical training for high school students, who take classes in conjunction with their high school courses, and also serves Peninsula College.
Present enrollment is 151 students.
Superintendents and board representatives from the five consortium districts — Cape Flattery, which has high schools in Neah Bay and Clallam Bay; Sequim; Port Angeles; Crescent in Joyce; and Quillayute Valley in Forks — will attend tonight’s dinner, said Jane Pryne, superintendent of the Port Angeles district.
Peninsula College was also invited, she said.
“It’s an informational meeting,” Pryne said.
“It’s been years since we’ve had one of these meetings.”
Topics will include the history of the skills center, enrollment, economic indicators and the effect on the center of new state graduation requirements.
“When students are required to take more content courses, they can take fewer skills center courses,” Pryne said.
A quorum of Port Angeles School Board members plan to attend, making the gathering a special meeting, though no action is planned.
It is not known how many board members from other districts will attend.
