Perkins Update and Alignment to Career Clusters

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Perkins Update and Alignment to Career Clusters
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How we have felt for the last year, last month,
last week!
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• Things are moving!!!!!

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Presentation Overview

• Setting the Context
• Update and Major Themes
• Next Steps Timing
• Thoughts to Ponder
• Resources

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Context Matters!!!

• Economic
• Social
• Policy

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National Policy Influencers - Economic

• Presidents FY07 proposal cuts education,
  workforce social service programs by close to
  5 billion
• Many competing pressures on budget
• The World is Flat influence.
• Globalization and its impact on Americas
  competitiveness.
• Concern about growing trade deficit.
• Concern about job loss is not just low level, but
  also mid-level.
• Concern about skills gap.

source Dept. of Commerce
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Social Influencers General Public

• Education remains top domestic issue and as such
  increasingly political.
• Increased awareness about student achievement
  (school report cards, etc.)
• Prevailing sentiment of a devalued high school
  diploma.

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Social Influencers - Policy

• More careers require postsecondary experiences
  (degree, certificate or credential).
• High remediation rates.
• High drop out rate both secondary and
  postsecondary.
• Disconnect between what we need to support our
  economy and student interest.

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Social Influencers Employers and Postsecondary

• Increasingly vocal dissatisfaction with
  workforces preparation

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Social Influencers - Political

• Demand for public accountability
• Demonstrated return on investment
• Focus on the use of public funds on demonstrated,
  effective strategies

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Demographics Reality

• 46 million baby boomers with some college nearing
  retirement.
• Net gain of 3 million workforce with some
  college.
• 15 million jobs by 2020 requiring college
  educated workers.

Source Carvnevale and Desrochers, The Missing
Middle Aligning Education and the Knowledge
Economy
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Legislative Responses

• Focus on
• High schools
• Effective transitions
• STEM
• SMART grants
• Competitiveness
• Achievement
• Accountability
• NCLB reauthorization
• Election year politics

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Congress Introduces Bills

• 2004
• Before the Presidents proposal, both House and
  Senate re-introduce their Perkins reauthorization
  proposals.

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Congress Acts Unanimously!!!

• Summer of 2005 passes legislation overwhelming
• H.R. 366 (416 9)
• S. 250 (99-0)

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Major Legislative Themes

• Leading CTE of the 21st century
• Global competition
• Eliminating restrictions to sub-baccalaureate
  careers
• Entry level, narrow preparation is not sufficient

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Major Legislative Themes

• Creating options by ensuring dual preparation
  college and careers
• Strengthen articulation
• Extend integration
• Increase rigor technical assessments

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Major Legislative Themes

• Responsiveness to the labor market
• High skill
• High wage
• High demand
• Increased career information

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Major Legislative Themes

• Increased accountability
• NCLB as academic achievement measure
• Separate secondary and postsecondary measures
• Performance levels negotiated with the state
• Disaggregation to be legislated.
• Meet performance goals or
• Improvement plan
• Loss of funding

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Major Legislative Themes

• How does the Congress envision achieving these
  goals?
• Incentive new models of CTE
• Model sequences of courses (H.R. 366)
• Career pathways (S. 250)
• CTE plans or programs of study
• conference agreement???

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Leading Change in CTE Career Pathways

• Minimally, each local grant recipient is required
  to implement at least one career pathway/model
  sequence of courses. Must include BOTH the
  secondary and postsecondary portion.

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Looks familiar?

• State Admin matching
• Uses of funds same as current law
• Fed to state and state to local formulas same as
  current practice
• Reserve fund
• Section 118 but no funding
• Eligible recipients and agencies

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What we wont see (probably)

• CTE student definition
• Expansion of funding to four year colleges
• A focus on teacher preparation

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Still to be decided

• Tech Prep
• State Administration
• Vocational versus Career Technical
• Equitable participation
• Incentive grants

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Timing and Next Steps

• Continue staff discussions
• Appoint conferees
• Convene conference committee
• Agree to conference report
• Vote on conference report House and Senate
• To President for approval new law!

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Thoughts to ponder

• What is your vision for CTE and then how does
  Perkins fit? What is your organizer?
• This should be a plan not an application for
  federal funding.
• Be true to the legislative intent these funds
  are to lead change and improve programs not be
  sustenance.

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Thoughts to ponder

• Who and how will you engage stakeholder groups?
• What will your local application look like?
  Should be a focus on quality!
• Business advisory committees?
• Documented alignment to standards?
• Use of data in decision-making?
• Role of labor market demand

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Thoughts to ponder

• Didnt get into legislation but there was sure
  talk of it
• Statewide articulation
• No use of funds on equipment to instead focus on
  teaching and learning
• Extending funding to 4-year colleges/universities

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Next Steps and Resources

• Resolution of differences between bills through
  conference committee
• Hopefully finish up soon
• One year transition timing is everything!
• Resources
• Conference priorities http//www.careertech.org/p
  ublications/Top_Perkins_Priorities.pdf
• Side by side http//www.careertech.org/publicatio
  ns/Perkins20side20by20side2005-10-0520(2).doc
  

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Thank you! Any Questions?

• Contact Information
• Kimberly Green
• kgreen_at_careertech.org