About KTEC
School Highlights
- Public charter school focused on Future Readiness Skills and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, with traditional curriculum enhanced through technology and project-based learning.
- Local, national, and global partnerships offer students real-world experiences.
- State-of-the-art Innovation Lab affords students hands-on learning.
- In collaboration with Snap-on Inc. and NC3, students participate in the Tool for Life program where students learn tool identification, safety, and application.
- Project Lead the Way curriculum is integrated into all grade levels, providing project-based, hands-on learning using the engineering design process.
- LEGO™ Robotics is taught in grades K-5 and helps students learn teamwork, analytical and critical thinking, risk-taking, communication, comprehension, brainstorming, evaluating, and reasoning skills.
- Grade-level intervention time is embedded throughout the day through the implementation of the school’s Reading Lab in order to meet the needs of all students by working together.
Charter
KTEC is a public charter school and an instrumentality of the KUSD. This means we teach the same benchmarks and standards as all students in the district. We are held accountable in the same way and take the state standardized test. Our students have all of the same services available to them through the district including OT, PT, speech, ELL services, and special education plans. Our students are also allowed to participate in middle-school sports through their boundary school. There is no tuition and openings are filled through a lottery system. We are called a charter school because we have a signed agreement (charter) with the district specifying the things we are allowed to do differently. KTEC is accountable to our Governance Board. They approve the budget and policy decisions.
KTEC receives state education money given to the district; however, only 80% of what non-charter schools are given. While the district provides the student services listed above, KTEC uses its own funds for all facility expenses, technology, and staff development and salaries. The KTEC Fit for Growth Endowment Fund is an account used to cover some of these costs.