Editorial: Use Monty Tech’s trade outreach as a state blueprint

Editorial: Use Monty Tech’s trade outreach as a state blueprint

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 regional voc-tech schools can accommodate up to 30,000 students, but that falls far short of what it could be. According to published reports, last year more than 8,500 middle-school grads — about 42% out of the roughly 20,300 applicants — were denied admi…