Resources
SNAP to Skills
This brief seeks to help states learn about the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act’s (WIOA) and SNAP E&T’s respective priorities, requirements, and strengths to identify common interests and complementary capabilities; think about how to use SNAP E&T funds strategically, along with WIOA resources, to better meet the needs of E&T participants and increase the impact of employment and training services; and understand the potential for partnering, using young adults as an example, and highlighting other current E&TWIOA State and local collaboration.
Braiding Funding to Support Equitable Career Pathways
This brief explains the sources and benefits of braiding funding, highlights promising practices for braiding funding in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Montana and Oklahoma and provides recommendations to enhance high-quality funding alignment and sustainability practice.
Taking Alignment to the Next Level
How K–12 and Higher Education Can Collaborate to Support Student Success
The State of CTE: Early Postsecondary Opportunities
Advance CTE, in partnership with the College in High School Alliance, released The State of CTE: Early Postsecondary Opportunities. This 50-state report reveals key findings on how EPSOs serve CTE learners and provides recommendations for state leaders to leverage state infrastructure and collaboration to advance equity in these experiences.
College Acceleration in Action
College Acceleration in Action: Five School Perspectives examines how real schools are putting the nine negotiables, separated into three buckets – Quality and Value, Equity and Access and Educators and Advisors – into practice to the benefit of all students.
Credential Currency
This report provides recommendations to states for identifying credentials of value and increasing the number of students who attain them. It reflects best practices from around the country. It also identifies emerging national initiatives and opportunities for collective action that can help states accelerate their work.
Rewarding Success for All Students
In 2019, Texas approved one of the nation’s “biggest and boldest” efforts to use performance funding in education. The state began providing significant bonuses for College, Career or Military Readiness (CCMR), with higher rewards for success with economically disadvantaged and special education students. This brief describes how the CCMR bonuses in Texas were developed, how they are designed, and how they are working so far.
Credentials Matter
Credentials Matter examines how the industry credentials students earn align with the workforce they will enter. Users can use this state credential attainment and employer demand data to align their state’s education system with workforce demand and improve state data collection practices.
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