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Final FY 2013 Workforce Investment Act Allotments
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This document from the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration provides the final Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 allotments to states and outlying areas for Adult, Dislocated Worker, and Youth Activities along with Wagner-Peyser funding and Workforce Information Grants. |
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Strengthening High School Teaching and Learning in New Hampshire's Competency-Based System
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This report, released by the Alliance for Excellent
Education in January 2013, profiles how two high schools in New Hampshire made this shift and
examines the necessary changes at both the school and in state policy.
Competency-based advancement is an important part of New Hampshireâ??s strategy
for implementing the Common Core State Standards and meeting the state
department of educationâ??s goal that every student â??deserves a course of study
that allows him or her to learn in a deep, meaningful, and practical way.â?Ì |
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Cross-System Collaboration for Reconnecting Youth
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This brief is designed to assist community and state leaders, youth advocates, educators, and other stakeholders interested in improving or expanding upon the options for struggling students and out-of-school youth. It provides background on important aspects of cross-system collaboration to help local- and state-level stakeholders think about where to start, how to assess how their community or state is doing, and how to improve or expand upon work already under way. |
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Expanding Options for Struggling Students and Out-of-School Youth: State Financing of Education Pathways (March 2010)
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This policy brief describes a number of finance-related policies that states can use to support the development of education options that serve disconnected youth and provides examples from across the country. |
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Achieving Graduation for All: A Governor's Guide to Dropout Prevention and Recovery
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Achieving Graduation for All: A Governor's Guide to Dropout Prevention and Recovery identifies the root causes of the high school dropout problem and offers a comprehensive action plan for states to curb dropouts, help youth succeed and strengthen state economies. Achieving Graduation for All recommends actions governors should take to reduce the incidence of students not completing high school, including: promote high school graduation for all; target youth at-risk of dropping out; reengage youth who have dropped out of school; and provide rigorous, relevant options for earning a high school diploma. Specific suggestions for implementation, such as raising the compulsory age of attendance to 18 and establishing reentry programs for juvenile offenders, are also contained within the report. |
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts Child and Youth Readiness Cabinet Statewide Integrated Data Sharing System (June 2009)
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In June 2008, Governor Deval Patrick released his Education Action Agenda, a comprehensive strategic plan that charts the course for the next phase of education reform in Massachusetts. The Action Agenda set as a primary goal the creation of an integrated system of education to meet the learning needs of every student in the Commonwealth, thus providing all students with the supports and skills necessary to meet the stateâ??s rigorous educational standards, and to help them become successful and productive members of the workforce and their communities. Governor Patrick established the Child and Youth Readiness Cabinet (the Cabinet), comprised of the Secretariats of the state agencies, with primary responsibility for serving children, youth and families. In April 2009, Public Consulting Group (PCG) was retained to clarify the crossagency vision for a statewide integrated data sharing and reporting system as outlined by the Governor and the Readiness Cabinet, and to draft a strategic plan with actionâ?Ìoriented recommendations to help the Cabinet begin to make concerted, measurable efforts toward achieving its vision. |
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Demographic, Socio-Economic, Schooling, and Labor Market Indicators for 16-24 Year Olds in the City of Hartford
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Prepared by: Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University
Prepared for: National League of Cities, Washington, D.C., October 2009 |
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Road to Reintegration: Ensuring Successfull Community Re-Entry for Former Offenders
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Goodwill Industries calls upon key stakeholders -- including state and federal policymakers, judges, law enforcement officials, service providers (including local Goodwill agencies), educators, employers, and victims -- to come together to create an environment that will hold people accountable and support individuals with criminal backgrounds who want to reintegrate into their communities and make positive contributions. |
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Raising Rigor, Getting Results: Lessons Learned from AP Expansion (Aug. 2009)
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The Advanced Placement Expansion project of the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) was one component of a large-scale initiative launched in 2005 to redesign the American high school. Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Nevada, and Wisconsinreceived funding to expand Advanced Placement (AP) courses to minority and low-income students at 51 pilot high schools in rural and urban school districts. The NGA Center, working in partnership with the College Board, has demonstrated that it is possible for states to raise rigor and get results at scale. |
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The Next Step: Using Longitudinal Data Systems to Improve Student Success (Mar. 2009)
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This paper focuses on the 10 actions that states should take to ensure that all stakeholders use state longitudinal data effectively for continuous improvement. |
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