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Vocational Education Status Report: Current Landscape, Future Trends, and Recommendations

This report provides a snapshot of the current vocational education landscape, program results, future trends, and recommendations. It updates a 1997 report and covers topics such as standards, performance measures, consolidation, collaboration, program coverage, enrollments, expenditures, and outcomes. The report also discusses the landscape of the future, including standards, performance measures, consolidation, and collaboration. Recommendations include embracing vocational education, focusing on hard-to-serve populations, promoting consolidation, allowing for local flexibility, and fostering more industry partnerships.

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Vocational Education Status Report: Current Landscape, Future Trends, and Recommendations

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  1. 2003 Voc Ed Status Report Madden Associates with the assistance of the Southeast Regional Resource Center

  2. Purpose • Commissioned by AWIB to • Provide snapshot of current voc ed landscape • Report on program results • Identify future trends • Make recommendations • Updates 1997 report

  3. Today’s Landscape • Standards • Performance Measures • Consolidation • Collaboration

  4. Standards • No Child Left Behind • Alaska Content Standards • Carl Perkins • Alaska Voc Ed Standards • AWIB’s Blueprint

  5. Performance Measures • Perkins and Workforce Investment Act Core Indicators • NCLB • Alaska’s High School Graduation Qualifying Exam

  6. Consolidation • WIA • NCLB • State Government Reorganization • Funding

  7. Collaboration • Public/Private Sector • Training Providers • Educational Institutions

  8. Results • Program Coverage • Enrollment • Expenditures • Outcomes

  9. Program Coverage • Rural • Urban

  10. Enrollments Secondary UA Other Postsecondary

  11. Duplicated Secondary Enrollment

  12. Major Clusters - Secondary

  13. Voc Ed as % of Total Enrollment

  14. UA Enrollments

  15. Post Secondary Enrollments

  16. Expenditures (in thousands)

  17. District Voc Ed Expenditures FY91/98

  18. Special Education Expenditures

  19. State Voc Tec Center Expenditures

  20. Adult Programs

  21. Program Outcomes Secondary Postsecondary

  22. Secondary Outcomes

  23. UA Fall Enrollments AWIB Priority Areas

  24. % of Employed Exiters

  25. Post Training Median Wages

  26. Other Performance Targets • Meet future employment demands • Replace non-resident workers • Replace older workers

  27. Landscape of the Future • Standards • Performance Measures • Consolidation • Collaboration

  28. Standards • Standards driven • Strong business/industry involvement • Potential marginalization

  29. Performance Measures • Increasing attention to outcomes • Funding tied to performance • “High Stakes” exam winners and losers • Resource squeeze

  30. Consolidation • Additional consolidation under WIA • Regional Training Centers

  31. Collaboration • Distance Education • Tech Prep

  32. Recommendations • Standards • Embrace Voc Ed • Performance Measures • Hard to Serve Populations • Consolidation • Local Flexibility • Collaboration • More Industry Partnerships

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