Civil Municipal Magazine - Nov 2023

180 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 11 County Public Schools offers 17 pathways for students and a robust work-based learning program that enables secondary students to gain hands-on experience in various businesses across the community. “We have over 500 businesses right now that partner with us. This past year, we had over 9,000 state certificates earned by our students in CTE, and we had over 23,000 work-based learning experiences for our high school students,” Dr. Daugherty says. The arrival of a LEGO facility in the county speaks volumes about Chesterfield County Public Schools focus on equipping students with the skills and knowledge that meet the demands of top-tier industries. “They spoke to our CTE people about being sure that we’d have the right workforce for them,” Dr. Daugherty says. Chesterfield County Public Schools also collaborates with industries such as CarMax, Shamin Hotels and Dominion Energy, which hire students based on the