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Texas Workforce Investment Council
Texas Workforce Investment Council1100 San Jacinto, Suite 1.100
Austin, Texas 78701https://gov.texas.gov/organization/twic
EVALUATION 2017ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND OUTCOMES OF THE TEXAS WORKFORCE SYSTEM
The Mission of the Texas Workforce Investment Council
Assisting the Governor and the Legislature with strategic planning for and evaluation of the Texas workforce system to promote the development of a well-educated, highly skilled workforce for Texas.
1100 San Jacinto Boulevard, Austin, Texas 78701 Voice: (512) 936-8100 Fax: (512) 936-8118
January 2018
Dear Fellow Texan:
The Texas Workforce Investment Council (Council) is pleased to present the Evaluation 2017 report on the Texas workforce system. Guided by The Texas Workforce System Strategic Plan FY 2016–FY 2023, the report was approved unanimously at the Council’s December 8, 2017, meeting.
Evaluation 2017 is the second report for the system strategic plan period, providing a system perspective of the progress and achievement of partner agencies and other system stakeholders. State statutes require that the Council evaluate the workforce system and report annually to the Governor and the legislature. Statutory requirements addressed in the report include:
system strategic plan implementation formal and less formal performance measures welfare to work initiatives adult education and literacy skill standards system
The focal point of this report is a balanced scorecard that presents outcome and trend data for system performance. Through the delivery of over 18 workforce education and training programs, state and local system partners served over 4.5 million individuals in the last reporting year. Of those participating in workforce system programs and services, almost 526,000 individuals completed a degree, certificate, or other measure of educational achievement. Over 1.5 million Texans who participated in a workforce program found a job, stayed in a job, and/or enrolled in further education or training.
With the second year of implementation complete, I am pleased to report that progress was made toward achieving the system goals and objectives contained in the eight-year plan. In the year ahead, the Council and its system partners will continue efforts to address cross-agency, high-priority issues related to employers, partner engagement, system alignment, and program improvement and integration. In addition, work will continue on a major system initiative to identify and track third-party, industry-based certifications in Texas.
I commend this report to you.
Sincerely,
Wes Jurey, Chair
Wes Jurey Chair
Sharla Hotchkiss Vice Chair
Mark Barberena
Robert Cross
Bryan Daniel
Mark Dunn
Carmen Olivas Graham
Thomas Halbouty
Richard Hatfield
Robert Hawkins
Larry Jeffus
Paul Jones
Mike Morath
Raymund Paredes
Richard Rhodes
Charles Smith
Joyce Delores Taylor
Larry Temple
Lee Rector Director
Evaluation 2017 Accomplishments and Outcomes of the Texas Workforce System
Texas Workforce Investment Council December 2017
Table of Contents
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Introduction …………………….……………………………………...……………………………………………………………………………….. 1 The Council and Texas’ Workforce System ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 1 Annual Evaluation ……………………………………………………………………………………............................................. 2 Balanced Scorecard ………………………………………………………………………………….............................................. 2 Key Performance Indicators …………..……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3Data Treatment and Limitations …………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 4Issues Identification ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 5
Balanced Scorecard ………………..………………..………………………………….…………...……………………………………………… 7Workforce System Performance Outcomes ……………………………………………………….................................... 9 Goal Area 1: Focus on Employers …………………………………………………………………......................................... 10
Action Plan Implementation Summaries……………………………………………………………………………………..... 11 Goal Area 2: Engage in Partnerships …...…………………………………………………………....................................... 22
Action Plan Implementation Summaries……………………………………………………………………………………..... 23 Goal Area 3: Align System Elements …...…………………………………………………………....................................... 32
Action Plan Implementation Summaries……………………………………………………………………………………..... 33
Goal Area 4: Improve and Integrate Programs..………………….…….…………..…..……………………………………….. Action Plan Implementation Summaries……………………………………………………………………………………..... 41
Strategic Pillars ………………………………………………………….……….……………….……………………………………………………. 49 Strategic System Initiatives ….………..……….…….…………….……………………………………………………………………… 49 Industry‐Based Certifications System Initiative……………………………………………………………………………………. 49 Developing a Grant Products Repository to Leverage Discretionary Wagner‐Peyser 7(b) Grant
Outcomes in Texas – A System Initiative ………………………………………………………………………………………. 50
Texas Skill Standards System ….……………………………………………………………………............................................... 53 History ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….................................... 53 Transfer under Sunset Legislation …..……………………………………………………………......................................... 53 Fiscal Year 2017 Progress ………………………………...……………………………………………....................................... 54
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Introduction
Guided by The Texas Workforce System Strategic Plan FY 2016–FY 2023, system partners work collaboratively to ensure Texas has a workforce that achieves success in the dynamic global economy. The Evaluation 2017 report to the Governor and legislature—the second report for the strategic plan period—provides a system perspective of the progress and achievement of partner agencies and other system stakeholders. The focal point of the report is a balanced scorecard that presents outcome and trend data for system performance.
The Council and Texas’ Workforce System
The Texas Workforce Investment Council (Council) was created in 1993 by the 73rd Texas Legislature. The Council is charged to promote the development of a highly skilled and well‐educated workforce for Texas, and to assist the Governor and the legislature with strategic planning for and evaluation of the Texas workforce system. The 19‐member Council includes representatives from business, labor, education, community‐based organizations, and member agencies.
The Texas workforce system is composed of the workforce programs, services, and initiatives administered by eight state agencies and 28 local workforce boards, as well as independent school districts, community and technical colleges, and local adult education providers. System partners are responsible for the delivery of 23 programs and services focused on education, workforce education, and workforce training for adults, adults with barriers, and youth.
The Council collects and disseminates performance data and descriptive information on 18 workforce programs, as well as five academic education programs at the secondary and postsecondary levels. Information and data from these five programs assist stakeholders to understand the state’s efforts to prepare students to transition to further education or enter the workforce.
Approved by Governor Greg Abbott, The Texas Workforce System Strategic Plan FY 2016–FY 2023 was developed by the Council and its system partners to align Texas workforce programs, services and initiatives. The plan elevates the system‐level approach established under the previous two strategic plans and guides system partners in implementing workforce strategies that are designed to achieve specific system objectives. These outcomes are based on
Texas Workforce System Strategic PlanFY 2016–FY 2023
Vision
An innovative, world‐class Texas workforce system ensures success in the dynamic global economy.
Mission
The mission of the Texas workforce system is to position Texas as a global economic leader by growing and sustaining a competitive workforce, aligning programs with employer needs, integrating system services, and leveraging partnerships.
System Partners
Governor’s Office of Economic Development and Tourism
Texas Association of Workforce Boards Texas Department of Criminal Justice and its
Windham School District Texas Education Agency Texas Health and Human Services Commission Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Texas Juvenile Justice Department Texas Veterans Commission Texas Workforce Commission
The system strategic plan and other Council products are posted on the Council’s website at:
https://gov.texas.gov/organization/twic
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Workforce System Performance Outcomes (formal measures): The first scorecard presents system performance outcomes for the four formal measures, which are essentially consistent across programs and were first approved in 2003. Thirteen‐year performance trend data are presented, as well as system and partner agency aggregate data for the most recent 12‐month program reporting period.
Implementation of System Goals (Goals 1–4, less formal measures): The plan’s four goal areas include action plans that outline partner agencies’ strategies, activities, and timelines to achieve the less formal measures associated with each system objective. Each goal area scorecard includes data for the relevant less formal measures—the key performance indicators that provide data on agencies’ actions to accomplish the strategies outlined in the plan. Agency implementation highlights and additional data elements that help illustrate accomplishments are also presented.
key issues identified throughout Texas, which shape the goals, system objectives, action plans, and key performance indicators of the plan.
Annual Evaluation
The Council is required by Texas Government Code, Chapter 2308, to monitor the state’s workforce system. As part of that responsibility, the Council annually reports to the Governor and the legislature on the degree to which the system is achieving workforce goals and objectives. This is the second evaluation report for the eight‐year strategic plan period. Statutory requirements addressed in the report include:
system strategic plan implementation formal and less formal performance measures welfare to work initiatives adult education and literacy skill standards system
Workforce system goals and objectives are the focus of this annual evaluation. Developed collaboratively by the Council and its system partners, many objectives require multi‐partner collaboration or alignment of programs, initiatives, and outcomes. Four goal areas address cross‐agency, high‐priority issues related to employers, partner engagement, system alignment, and program improvement and integration.
By design, this report presents a system perspective of progress and achievement for partner agencies and other system stakeholders, and meets statutory requirements for reporting to the Governor and legislature. A balanced scorecard aligns with the plan’s structure and supports reporting and performance assessment.
Balanced Scorecard
Performance accountability remains a key element under the new system plan and the balanced scorecard supports Council and system partner efforts to continuously improve the workforce system’s efficiency and effectiveness. The five components—illustrated
in the graphic at right—present system and Balanced Scorecard Componentsgoal‐specific performance outcomes attributable to the efforts and actions of partner agencies and their delivery agents.
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Key Performance Indicators
Two types of measures were included in the system strategic plan: formal and less formal. The measures meet the statutory requirement for the Council to conduct performance measurement by developing and maintaining a comprehensive system of data gathering and reporting. The formal and less formal measures are presented in the table below.
Formal and Less Formal Measures
Formal – Workforce System Performance Outcomes
Educational attainment
Entered employment
Employment retention
Customers served
Less Formal – Goal Area 1: Focus on Employers
Rate of employer satisfaction
Percentage of revised career and technical education programs of study reviewed by business and industry
Type and number of third‐party, industry‐based certifications successfully completed by program participants
Certification success rate: total successfully completed certification assessments divided by total attempted certification assessments
Less Formal – Goal Area 2: Engage in Partnerships
Percentage of consumers participating in integrated work‐based learning activities
Percentage of individuals co‐enrolled in vocational rehabilitation and workforce programs
Percentage of individuals co‐enrolled in adult education and workforce programs
Educational attainment rate of students successfully completing Accelerate Texas programs at community and technical colleges
Entered employment rate of students successfully completing Accelerate Texas programs at community and technical colleges
Rate of employer satisfaction
Less Formal – Goal Area 3: Align System Elements
Percentage of grade twelve secondary students who receive career and technical education dual credit, enroll in a two‐year institution, and receive credit at the institution
Career and technical education time to degree
Percentage of students and youth with disabilities who participated in transition services and subsequently enrolled in postsecondary education and training
Percentage of students and youth with disabilities who participated in transition services and subsequently entered competitive integrated employment
Percentage of community and technical college students who receive program‐of‐study‐based course credit who transfer to another two‐year institution and have that credit recognized
Percentage of career and technical education programs approved for dual credit
Percentage of students successfully completing dual credit career and technical education courses
Less Formal – Goal Area 4: Improve and Integrate Programs
Percentage of students using technology for course content delivery
Utilization of labor market information products
Utilization of self‐service options
Utilization of online professional development courses
Percentage of consumers served who have identified as veterans with disabilities
Percentage of consumers served with intellectual and developmental disabilities, mental health conditions, autism, and deaf‐blindness who subsequently enter competitive integrated employment
Percentage of child care providers who are certified as Texas Rising Star providers
Entered employment rate of parents receiving child care
Employment retention rate of parents receiving child care
Formal Measures: Four measures approved in 2003 and 2009 were incorporated in the FY 2016–FY 2023 strategic plan: educational achievement, entered employment, employment retention, and customers served. These system
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measures, which cross workforce programs and are outcome‐oriented, establish responsibility for end outcomes or outputs that are central to the system’s success.
Formal measures are included in agency legislative appropriation requests, and may or may not be specified as key measures1. A formal measure is required to be reported to the Council if it is determined to be a significant intended outcome for a workforce program. As required by statute, program‐level data are submitted to the Council by six partner agencies for 23 programs focused on education, workforce, and workforce training services.
Less Formal Measures: This type of measure provides information and feedback that is essential in both the development and the implementation of the system strategic plan. Less formal measures may apply to some or all agency partners. Usually aligned with actions considered critical in determining implementation of a plan strategy, these measures demonstrate success of the plan over time.
Twenty‐five less formal measures are specified in the plan, with measures related to the adult education referral system to be developed at a later date. For some measures, data will become available in future years for different reasons, e.g.: (1) partner agencies need to build or modify data collection and reporting mechanisms, (2) measure definition and methodology will be beta‐tested during a pilot period, or (3) measure(s) will be developed later in the plan period.
Data Treatment and Limitations
Agency Negotiation: Data definitions and methodologies were first negotiated with agencies in 2004. To achieve a higher degree of consistency when aggregating data across programs, the Council requested that federal common definitions be adopted for the formal measures where relevant, and that similar program periods also be used. After renegotiation in 2009, definitions and program periods continued to differ slightly from those used during the previous strategic plan period.
In 2016, Council staff worked with partner agencies to review and update the formal measure definitions and methodologies, and to further align them with Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act requirements. Both entered employment and employment retention are essentially consistent across partner agencies and, where required, the program periods for reporting were adjusted based on federal guidance. Also of note, during the 84th legislative session the Windham School District was granted the authority to award high school diplomas. Definitions and methodologies for all less formal measures were also negotiated with partner agencies.
Technical Document: Additional information is available by request, including a list of the 23 programs included in formal measures reporting; program‐level data by formal measure, by agency; and less formal measures data by goal area, by agency.
Program‐Level Data: Formal measures data are reported by program by each partner agency as required by statute. For the purpose of this evaluation report, these data are aggregated and reported as system‐level data. Measures are presented as both an absolute number and as a percentage, and are from the most recent 12‐month reporting period available. As noted above, program‐level data are included in the technical document that is available by request.
Unduplicated Data: In most cases, data are unduplicated and conform to reporting definitions and methodologies agreed to by partner agencies. Where known, totals are adjusted to provide an unduplicated count. For example, educational achievement data may include duplicate data where a participant has outcomes for both education and training programs.
1 Key measures indicate the extent to which a state agency is achieving its goals or objectives and consist of the outcome, output, efficiency, and explanatory measures referenced in the General Appropriations Act for each agency. [Legislative Budget Board, Performance Reporting for New Key Measures (December 2015)]
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Data Revisions: In October 2017, TWC submitted data revisions for formal and less formal measures for 2016. In addition,TWC reported that its case management systems offer few ways to track post-exit enrollment in education/training programs and historically there has been little need to track this information making it largely unavailable for reporting this year. TWC will be modifying the case management systems over the next year to capture this information and is exploring matching with external data.
Rounding Convention: A rounding convention has been applied to the formal and less formal measures data displayed as a percentage: .001 to .004 has been rounded down to .00; .005 to .009 has been rounded up to the next highest hundredth. Rounding rules are applied after completion of all applicable mathematical operation(s) such as division or subtraction.
Data Ownership: Some partner agencies process their own data, while others have interagency agreements with other partner agencies for data processing. Raw data are confidential records owned by the applicable agency.
Unemployment Insurance Records:
Time Lag – There is a significant delay in receiving and analyzing unemployment insurance wage records for measuring employment performance. For example, employment retention is based on participants’ status a full year following program completion. Several factors must be considered, including the time allowed for employers to submit data to the Texas Workforce Commission and the time necessary for agencies to process and report the data to the Council. This means that the performance data reported each year reflects the outcomes of people who exited services one or two years prior.
Coverage – An unknown number of program exiters obtain jobs that are not covered by the Texas unemployment insurance system. For example, those who are self‐employed or in other contract work, those who relocate and become employed in another state, and those who live in Texas but are employed across state lines are not reported. This lack of coverage results in lower levels of documented employment, reflected in lower outcomes when education and training programs are evaluated. More complete data sets may be available where the agency can use other databases—such as the Wage Record Interchange System or the Federal Employment Data Exchange System—to identify employment with employers who do not file unemployment insurance wages in Texas.
Issues Identification
System partners operate in a complex, changing economic environment as they strive to provide employers, current workers, and future workers with services that are comprehensive, timely, and relevant. By 2025, the Texas population is projected to exceed 30.7 million people, with almost 12 million workers being 25 to 54 years of age. The demographic composition is expected to continue to change, with Hispanic growing to the largest percentage of the population (43.55 percent) and the number of females slightly exceeding that of males.2
Growth in middle‐skills jobs—those that require more than a high school degree but less than a four‐year degree—continues to increase the demand for workers with industry‐based certifications. The Texas workforce employed in middle‐skill occupations in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields is projected to increase by 24 percent to nearly 1.5 million workers in the next decade. This growth will include significant increases in healthcare, construction, and manufacturing fields. 3 In Texas, future workers will also be needed in the growing
2 Texas State Data Center, based on the 0.5 migration scenario (http://demographics.texas.gov/, October 2017). 3 Texas Workforce Investment Council, Defining Middle‐Skill STEM Occupations in Texas (December 2015).
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industries of computer systems design and related services, as well as service‐related industries.4
The Council is charged with facilitating the development of a systemic, integrated approach to the delivery of programs and services that meet the needs of employers and individuals. This task is accomplished in part through identifying issues and working with system partners to achieve issue resolution. Over the eight‐year plan period, issues directly related to the scope as outlined above are included in the annual evaluation report.
The Council also identifies and works to address issues related to the state’s workforce system through other strategies and methods, including:
Council Strategy and Listening Sessions – Convened in addition to, or in conjunction with, regular Council meetings in order to identify and address systemic issues.
Issue Briefs and Reports – Produced periodically to address specific workforce issues or to provide
demographic profiles for population segments such as mature workers, people with disabilities, and veterans.
Stakeholder Roundtables or Surveys – Conducted periodically to obtain feedback regarding system stakeholder
needs and to assess workforce system usage and satisfaction levels.
4 Texas Workforce Commission LMCI Tracer, Texas Fastest Growing Industries (www.tracer2.com/, October 2017).
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Balanced Scorecard
The balanced scorecard framework complements the system strategic plan’s structure and supports reporting and performance assessment. By design, a balanced scorecard provides a framework for developing, implementing, and managing strategy by linking objectives, measures, and initiatives to the strategy. The structure of the FY 2016–FY 2023 system plan readily aligns with a balanced scorecard framework—based on four goal areas that address cross‐agency, high‐priority issues determined critical to achieving the plan’s vision and mission.
The Council believes the balanced scorecard supports both Council and system partner efforts to continuously improve the workforce system’s efficiency and effectiveness. The components incorporate narrative and graphics to illustrate achievements by both the system and partner agencies, as reported that fiscal year (FY). This evaluation design also supports communication between the Council and its partner agencies and provides an assessment of progress and outcomes to internal and external customers, including the Governor, legislature, and other system stakeholders.
The balanced scorecard presents formal and less formal measures data reported to the Council by six partner agencies:
Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) and its Windham School District Texas Education Agency (TEA) Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD) Texas Veterans Commission (TVC) Texas Workforce Commission (TWC)
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Workforce System Perform
ance Outcomes
2017
System Partner
Educational Achievement (EA)
Entered Employm
ent (EE)
Employm
ent Retention (ER
) Customers Served (CS)
Criminal Justice
1,560
n/a
n/a
3,301
Education
482,363
143,973
n/a
2,939,735
Higher Education
33,220
109,374
92,147
654,817
Juvenile Justice
586
n/a
n/a
3,645
Veterans
n/a
14,636
14,046
16,650
Workforce
9,497
621,760
523,432
915,044
Total
525,666
922,627
629,625
4,529,891
Percent
77.73%
73.57%
84.41%
n/a
2005
2007
2009
2011
2013
2015
2017
EA80.59%
77.23%
74.40%
78.22%
80.46%
81.34%
77.73%
EE75.86%
78.27%
77.62%
67.74%
70.89%
76.26%
73.57%
ER82.38%
82.54%
83.21%
80.48%
82.55%
84.02%
84.41%
CS
4,581,652
4,756,333
5,237,860
5,249,693
5,035,053
4,962,054
4,529,891
4,000,000
4,200,000
4,400,000
4,600,000
4,800,000
5,000,000
5,200,000
5,400,000
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50%
60%
70%
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Form
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Destin
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Advancing Texas
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St
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Fiscal Year 2017 Outcomes
525,666 (7
7.73 percent) individuals
completed a degree, certificate, or other
measure of educational achievement
922,627 (73.57 percent) individuals
entered employm
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rolled in
ed
ucation or training after program
exit
629,625 (84.41 percent) individuals
retained
employm
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in education or training after program
exit
4,529,891 individuals received
services
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the Texas workforce system
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Workforce System Performance Outcomes
To further align formal measures with Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act requirements, last year Council staff worked with partner agencies to review and update the formal measure definitions and methodologies. Both entered employment and employment retention are essentially consistent across partner agencies and, where required, the program periods for reporting were adjusted based on federal guidance. The new federal regulations significantly affected the reported outcomes of certain programs such as Adult Education – WIOA, Title II. Despite these changes, system trends remain consistent when considering funding levels and economic factors.
The recession and ensuing recovery were contributing factors to changes in the longitudinal trend lines over the 13‐year period displayed for formal measures. As noted in Evaluation 2013, data reported for all formal measures had shown the effects during and since recovery from the economic recession. This was true to some degree in Evaluation 2009 for customers served, and began to be evidenced later for the employment‐related measures due to delay in receiving and analyzing unemployment insurance wage records for measuring performance.
Minor changes occur across programs and over time. However, key changes that affect the trend lines include federal or state legislation and policy changes, and significant increases or decreases in federal or state funding levels—including funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111–5). Customers served, which is the most volatile trend line, clearly shows customer growth during the recession and a decline thereafter. During the recession, more Texans needed workforce programs and services, just as more students accessed higher education. Combined with the influx of federal recovery funding available through Texas’ workforce system, a significant increase in demand for services is evident during the period 2009 to 2011.
The longitudinal trend lines for educational achievement, entered employment, and employment retention demonstrate comparatively consistent performance across time. The recessionary period is evident in data reported by agencies from 2009 through 2011. Despite the fact that Texas fared far better than most states during the recession, both entered employment and employment retention moved downward during this period. In 2012 and 2013, these data trends had not yet returned to their pre‐recession highs. While there is no definitive causal information to which this movement can be attributed, it is likely that higher unemployment, business contraction, and significantly reduced hiring by employers during that period were contributing factors.
While these employment measures were trending lower during the recession, educational achievement was trending higher before declining in 2015 and remaining relatively unchanged this year. Higher enrollment in postsecondary institutions is often evidenced during periods of economic contractions or recession, and this is consistent with patterns during previous recessionary periods.
Data Notes
Most programs are designed to serve participants that meet specific eligibility criteria and have unique needs. Program objectives and desired outcomes vary, and approved definitions and methodologies are program‐specific. Additionally, integrated service delivery strategies may result in duplication of customer counts across programs. Data subsets (duplicates) include Postsecondary Community and Technical College Corrections – Academic and Technical, which has been adjusted to provide unduplicated counts for educational achievement and customers served.
In October 2016, TWC notified the Council that Apprenticeship Chapter 133 educational achievement data were not available and that prior year data (2004–2015) were invalid. The agency determined that the current dataset did not allow differentiation between participants completing a year in the program versus completing the program. TWC is making data collection improvements in order to report consistently with the approved definition and methodology. Program data have been removed from the educational achievement trend line.
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Goa
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Focus on Employers
Wha
t are th
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How
are sy
stem
partners a
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Increase business and industry
Involvem
ent.
TVC is expanding outreach program
s to employers to
assist veterans in finding quality em
ploym
ent.
Employer satisfaction data was not reported
.
TEA is involving business and industry in
Texas Essen
tial
Knowledge and Skills review and program
s of study.
In applicable years, TEA
will rep
ort the number of
revised career and technical education program
s of
study review
ed by business and industry.
Expand licensure and industry
certification.
Five system partners are using third‐party, industry‐
based
certifications where relevant as an education or
training outcome to connect graduate competen
cies to
job skill requirem
ents: TEA
, THEC
B, TVC, TWC, and
Windham
.
125,285 third‐party, industry‐based
certifications
successfully completed by program
participants:
72,777 (TEA)
21,535 (TH
ECB)
3,260 (TW
C), including 263 awarded
to
veterans
27,713 (Windham
)
Certification success rate:
80.0 percen
t (TEA
)
82.1 percen
t (W
indham
)
By accessing critical education and labor data sets, employers can
better find and plan for skilled
workers to m
eet their needs in both the im
med
iate
timeframe and the future. Through
greater engagemen
t with employers, education and training providers can better design career and technical education
content and delivery options that are m
ore aligned
with industry needs. Providers can m
ake adjustmen
ts in
program
content to ben
efit employers and
studen
ts, as well as address both state and regional economic needs.
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Focus on Employers: Action Plan Implementation Summaries
By improving access to critical education and labor data sets, employers can better find and plan for skilled workers to meet their needs in both the immediate timeframe and the future. Through greater engagement with employers, education and training providers can better design career and technical education content and delivery options that are more aligned with industry needs. Providers can make adjustments in program content to benefit employers and students, as well as address both state and regional economic needs.
System Partner Strategy Agency System Objective System Goal
Expand outreach programs to employers to assist veterans to find quality employment.
TVC
Increase business and industry involvement.
Focus on employers
Involve business and industry in Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills review and programs of study.
TEA
Use third‐party, industry‐based certifications where relevant as an education or training outcome to connect graduate competencies to job skill requirements.
TWC TEA THECB TVC TDCJ
Expand licensure and industry certification.
Align career and technical education program content and outcomes with third‐party, industry‐based certifications.
TEA THECB
Five partner agencies are focused on increasing business and industry involvement, as well as expanding licensure and industry certification to more effectively assist employers in finding skilled talent.
The following pages include action plan reports from each of the partner agencies. Please note that the reports contain information verbatim as submitted by the agencies.
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t b
y th
e St
ate
Bo
ard
of
Edu
cati
on
In p
rogr
ess
09
/17
Id
enti
fy a
nd
rev
iew
rel
evan
t in
du
stry
-bas
ed c
erti
fica
tio
ns,
an
d in
corp
ora
te e
xam
ple
s in
to t
he
revi
sio
n o
f p
rogr
ams
of
stu
dy
con
ten
t.
On
goin
g FY
20
19
In p
rogr
ess
09
/17
R
equ
est
assi
stan
ce f
rom
th
e Te
xas
Wo
rkfo
rce
Co
mm
issi
on
in s
olic
itin
g b
usi
ne
ss a
nd
in
du
stry
inp
ut
on
rev
ised
pro
gram
s o
f st
ud
y.
On
goin
g FY
20
19
Par
t 2
–FY
20
17
Ke
y A
ctiv
itie
s
-Th
e St
ate
Bo
ard
of
Edu
cati
on
has
pu
blis
hed
a p
rop
ose
d T
EKS
revi
ew s
ched
ule
. Beg
inn
ing
in 2
01
9-2
02
0, s
elec
ted
CTE
Car
eer
Clu
ster
TEK
S w
ill b
e re
view
ed
an
d a
do
pte
d e
very
yea
r. T
he
firs
tcl
ust
ers
to b
e re
view
ed w
ill b
e ST
EM a
nd
Hea
lth
Sci
ence
.-S
tate
acc
ou
nta
bili
ty in
du
stry
rec
ogn
ized
cre
den
tial
s w
ere
ap
pro
ved
an
d w
ill b
e in
cop
ora
ted
into
pro
gram
s o
f st
ud
y.P
rogr
ams
of
stu
dy
are
bei
ng
revi
sed
in c
oo
per
atio
n w
ith
th
e Te
xas
Hig
her
Ed
uca
tio
n C
oo
rdin
atin
g B
oar
d. B
usi
ne
ss a
nd
ind
ust
ry in
pu
t w
ill b
e re
qu
est
ed
.
12
Age
ncy
Te
xas
Edu
cati
on
Age
ncy
Go
al A
rea
1
– F
ocu
s o
n E
mp
loye
rs
Stra
tegy
U
se t
hir
d-p
arty
, in
du
stry
-bas
ed
cer
tifi
cati
on
s w
her
e re
leva
nt
as a
n e
du
cati
on
or
trai
nin
g o
utc
om
e to
co
nn
ect
grad
uat
e co
mp
eten
cies
to
job
ski
ll re
qu
irem
ents
.
Par
t 1
–Sta
tus
Up
dat
e f
or
Act
ion
s
Act
ual
[m
m/y
y]
Spec
ifie
d in
Pla
n
FY 2
01
7 S
tatu
s St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
Act
ion
St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
Fin
aliz
ed
09
/16
0
8/1
7
Co
llect
th
ird
-par
ty, i
nd
ust
ry-b
ased
cer
tifi
cati
on
info
rmat
ion
on
th
e P
erki
ns
ann
ual
p
erfo
rman
ce e
valu
atio
n r
epo
rt.
On
goin
g FY
20
19
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
Id
enti
fy a
nd
incl
ud
e th
ird
-par
ty, i
nd
ust
ry-b
ased
cer
tifi
cati
on
s, a
s re
leva
nt,
as
exa
mp
les
in
revi
sed
pro
gram
s o
f st
ud
y.
On
goin
g FY
20
19
Par
t 2
–FY
20
17
Ke
y A
ctiv
itie
s
-In
du
stry
rec
ogn
ize
d c
red
en
tial
info
rmat
ion
is b
ein
g co
llect
ed f
rom
sch
oo
l dis
tric
ts t
hro
ugh
th
e 2
01
6-2
01
7 P
erki
ns
Pef
orm
ance
Eff
ecti
ven
ess
Rep
ort
.-I
nd
ust
ry-b
ased
cer
tifi
cati
on
s w
ill b
e in
cop
ora
ted
into
pro
gram
s o
f st
ud
y as
exa
mp
les.
13
Age
ncy
Te
xas
Edu
cati
on
Age
ncy
Go
al A
rea
1
– F
ocu
s o
n E
mp
loye
rs
Stra
tegy
A
lign
car
eer
and
tec
hn
ical
ed
uca
tio
n p
rogr
am c
on
ten
t an
d o
utc
om
es
wit
h t
hir
d-p
arty
, in
du
stry
-bas
ed c
erti
fica
tio
ns.
Par
t 1
–Sta
tus
Up
dat
e f
or
Act
ion
s
Act
ual
[m
m/y
y]
Spec
ifie
d in
Pla
n
FY 2
01
7 S
tatu
s St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
Act
ion
St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
No
t st
arte
d
09
/19
A
lign
Te
xas
Esse
nti
al K
no
wle
dge
an
d S
kills
to
ind
ust
ry-b
ase
d c
erti
fica
tio
ns,
wh
ere
rele
van
t.
On
goin
g FY
20
19
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
In
clu
de
ind
ust
ry c
erti
fica
tio
ns
as e
xam
ple
s in
pro
gram
s o
f st
ud
y an
d c
olle
ge a
nd
car
eer
pla
nn
ing
guid
es.
On
goin
g FY
20
19
Fin
aliz
ed
09
/16
0
8/1
7
Iden
tify
ind
ust
ry c
erti
fica
tio
ns
off
ered
by
Earl
y C
olle
ge H
igh
Sch
oo
ls.
On
goin
g FY
20
19
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
D
esig
n p
roce
sse
s fo
r ca
reer
an
d t
ech
nic
al e
du
cati
on
pro
gram
s o
f st
ud
y th
at id
enti
fy
rele
van
t in
du
stry
cer
tifi
cati
on
s an
d li
cen
ses
and
inco
rpo
rate
rel
ated
car
eer
and
ski
ll in
form
atio
n in
to p
rogr
am c
on
ten
t w
her
e ap
pro
pri
ate.
On
goin
g FY
20
19
Par
t 2
–FY
20
17
Ke
y A
ctiv
itie
s
-Th
e St
ate
Bo
ard
of
Edu
cati
on
has
pu
blis
hed
a p
rop
ose
d T
EKS
revi
ew s
ched
ule
. Beg
inn
ing
in 2
01
9-2
02
0, s
elec
ted
CTE
Car
eer
Clu
ster
TEK
S w
ill b
e re
view
ed
an
d a
do
pte
d e
very
yea
r. T
he
firs
tcl
ust
ers
to b
e re
view
ed w
ill b
e ST
EM a
nd
Hea
lth
Sci
ence
. Wh
ere
rele
van
t, in
du
stry
bas
ed
cer
tifi
cati
on
s w
ill b
e al
ign
ed.
-Th
e co
llege
an
d c
aree
r p
lan
nin
g gu
ides
will
be
up
dat
ed
du
rin
g 2
01
7-2
01
8 a
nd
will
incl
ud
e in
du
stry
cer
tifi
cati
on
s as
exa
mp
les.
-Beg
inn
ing
in F
ebru
ary
20
18
, rep
ort
s o
f in
du
stry
cer
tifi
cati
on
s o
ffe
red
by
Earl
y C
olle
ge H
igh
Sch
oo
ls w
ill b
e av
aila
ble
.-A
pro
cess
fo
r id
enti
fyin
g in
du
stry
cer
tifi
cati
on
s an
d li
cen
ses
for
pro
gram
s o
f st
ud
y is
in p
rogr
ess.
14
Age
ncy
Te
xas
Hig
her
Ed
uca
tio
n C
oo
rdin
atin
g B
oar
d
Go
al A
rea
1
– F
ocu
s o
n E
mp
loye
rs
Stra
tegy
U
se t
hir
d-p
arty
, in
du
stry
-bas
ed
cer
tifi
cati
on
s w
her
e re
leva
nt
as a
n e
du
cati
on
or
trai
nin
g o
utc
om
e to
co
nn
ect
grad
uat
e co
mp
eten
cies
to
job
ski
ll re
qu
irem
ents
.
Par
t 1
–Sta
tus
Up
dat
e f
or
Act
ion
s
Act
ual
[m
m/y
y]
Spec
ifie
d in
Pla
n
FY 2
01
7 S
tatu
s St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
Act
ion
St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
Id
enti
fy a
nd
inco
rpo
rate
ind
ust
ry-b
ased
cer
tifi
cati
on
s as
mile
sto
ne
s in
pro
gram
s o
f st
ud
y.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
9
No
t st
arte
d
09
/19
C
on
sid
er in
du
stry
-bas
ed c
erti
fica
tio
ns
as p
ote
nti
al s
ucc
ess
po
ints
in f
orm
ula
/per
form
ance
fu
nd
ing.
FY
20
19
FY
20
19
In p
rogr
ess
04
/17
R
evis
e ex
isti
ng
Wo
rkfo
rce
Edu
cati
on
Co
urs
e M
anu
al c
ou
rse
revi
ew p
roce
ss t
o
incl
ud
e d
isci
plin
e-s
pec
ific
pro
fess
ion
al d
evel
op
men
t to
en
cou
rage
sta
tew
ide
ado
pti
on
an
d u
se o
f in
du
stry
-bas
ed c
erti
fica
tio
ns.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
9
Par
t 2
–FY
20
17
Ke
y A
ctiv
itie
s
The
Wo
rkfo
rce
Edu
cati
on
Co
urs
e M
anu
al A
dvi
sory
Co
mm
itte
e (W
ECM
-AC
) w
as e
stab
lish
ed b
y th
e B
oar
d in
Ap
ril 2
01
7.
The
WEC
M-A
C h
ad t
hei
r fi
rst
mee
tin
g th
is s
um
mer
. Th
e C
om
mit
tee
has
b
een
tas
ked
to
dev
elo
p a
co
urs
e re
visi
on
pro
cess
th
at is
no
t ti
ed t
o a
per
iod
ic r
evie
w c
ycle
, bu
t th
at is
mo
re r
esp
on
sive
to
th
e n
eed
s o
f b
usi
ne
ss a
nd
ind
ust
ry.
The
Co
mm
itte
e h
as b
een
tas
ked
to
inco
rpo
rate
rec
om
men
dat
ion
s fo
r in
du
stry
bas
ed
cer
tifi
cati
on
s as
par
t o
f th
e co
urs
e re
view
pro
cess
. Th
is t
ask
is o
ngo
ing.
15
Age
ncy
Te
xas
Hig
her
Ed
uca
tio
n C
oo
rdin
atin
g B
oar
d
Go
al A
rea
1
– F
ocu
s o
n E
mp
loye
rs
Stra
tegy
A
lign
car
eer
and
tec
hn
ical
ed
uca
tio
n p
rogr
am c
on
ten
t an
d o
utc
om
es
wit
h t
hir
d-p
arty
, in
du
stry
-bas
ed c
erti
fica
tio
ns.
Par
t 1
–Sta
tus
Up
dat
e f
or
Act
ion
s
Act
ual
[m
m/y
y]
Spec
ifie
d in
Pla
n
FY 2
01
7 S
tatu
s St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
Act
ion
St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
D
evel
op
dis
cip
line
-sp
ecif
ic s
tate
wid
e ad
viso
ry g
rou
ps
to p
rovi
de
inp
ut
con
cern
ing
skill
s, c
erti
fica
tio
ns,
an
d li
cen
ses
req
uir
ed b
y b
usi
nes
s an
d in
du
stry
. V
arie
s b
y p
rogr
am
dis
cip
line
s
FY 2
01
9
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
C
on
stru
ct p
roce
sses
to
de
velo
p a
nd
rev
ise
pro
gram
s o
f st
ud
y th
at id
enti
fy r
elev
ant
ind
ust
ry-b
ased
cer
tifi
cati
on
s an
d li
cen
ses,
as
wel
l as
the
occ
up
atio
nal
info
rmat
ion
th
at
can
be
inco
rpo
rate
d in
to t
ho
se p
rogr
ams.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
9
No
t st
arte
d
09
/18
P
rovi
de
stat
ewid
e p
rofe
ssio
nal
dev
elo
pm
ent
wo
rksh
op
s, b
y d
isci
plin
e, t
o s
har
e b
est
p
ract
ices
an
d im
pro
ve s
tud
ent
ou
tco
mes
. FY
20
18
FY
20
19
Par
t 2
–FY
20
17
Ke
y A
ctiv
itie
s
As
dis
cuss
ed p
revi
ou
sly,
th
e W
ECM
-AC
has
just
beg
an t
he
pro
cess
of
revi
sin
g th
e W
ECM
co
urs
e re
view
pro
cess
to
incl
ud
e in
du
stry
bas
ed c
erti
fica
tio
n. I
nfo
rmat
ion
will
nee
d t
o b
e m
ade
avai
lab
le t
o t
he
colle
ges
and
th
eir
facu
lty
as t
he
revi
sio
n p
roce
ss is
imp
lem
en
ted
. P
rofe
ssio
nal
dev
elo
pm
ent
will
be
incl
ud
ed
in t
he
con
vers
atio
ns
wit
h t
he
WEC
M-A
C.
Co
ord
inat
ing
Bo
ard
sta
ff
will
co
nti
nu
e to
co
mm
un
icat
e w
ith
th
e tw
o-y
ear
colle
ges
as t
hes
e p
roce
sses
evo
lve.
16
Age
ncy
Te
xas
Vet
eran
s C
om
mis
sio
n
Go
al A
rea
1
– F
ocu
s o
n E
mp
loye
rs
Stra
tegy
Ex
pan
d o
utr
each
pro
gram
s to
em
plo
yers
to
ass
ist
vete
ran
s to
fin
d q
ual
ity
emp
loym
ent.
Par
t 1
–Sta
tus
Up
dat
e f
or
Act
ion
s
Act
ual
[m
m/y
y]
Spec
ifie
d in
Pla
n
FY 2
01
7 S
tatu
s St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
Act
ion
St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
0
8/1
7
Inte
grat
e w
ith
Tex
as W
ork
forc
e C
om
mis
sio
n b
usi
nes
s se
rvic
e u
nit
s ac
ross
th
e s
tate
. O
ngo
ing
FY 2
01
9
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
0
8/1
7
Par
tner
wit
h e
mp
loye
rs a
nd
vet
eran
ser
vice
org
aniz
atio
ns
on
hir
ing
even
ts.
On
goin
g FY
20
19
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
0
8/1
7
Par
tici
pat
e in
co
rpo
rate
eve
nts
, pan
el d
iscu
ssio
ns,
an
d p
rese
nta
tio
ns.
O
ngo
ing
FY 2
01
9
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
0
8/1
7
Par
tner
wit
h e
mp
loye
r o
rgan
izat
ion
s, t
he
Soci
ety
for
Hu
man
Res
ou
rce
Man
agem
ent,
an
d
cham
ber
s o
f co
mm
erce
. O
ngo
ing
FY 2
01
9
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
0
8/1
7
Co
nd
uct
sem
i-an
nu
al e
mp
loye
r sa
tisf
acti
on
su
rvey
s, a
nal
yze
surv
ey d
ata,
an
d e
valu
ate
way
s to
imp
rove
ou
trea
ch p
rogr
ams
to e
mp
loye
rs.
On
goin
g FY
20
19
Par
t 2
–FY
20
17
Ke
y A
ctiv
itie
s
Ou
r Lo
cal V
eter
ans
Employm
ent
Rep
rese
nta
tive
s lo
cate
d w
ith
in e
ach
Lo
cal W
ork
forc
e D
evel
op
men
t A
rea
con
tin
ue
to a
dvo
cate
fo
r ve
tera
n e
mp
loym
ent
thro
ugh
outrea
ch t
o e
mp
loye
rs. T
he
Texa
s V
eter
ans
Co
mm
issi
on
pro
vid
es a
dd
itio
nal
ser
vice
s to
em
plo
yers
in a
ll as
pec
ts o
f em
plo
ymen
t. D
uri
ng
FY 1
7 t
he
Texa
s V
eter
ans
Co
mm
issi
on
ho
sted
a s
erie
s o
f jo
b f
airs
wit
h t
he
Cu
sto
ms
and
Bo
rder
Pro
tect
ion
Age
ncy
in f
ive
dif
fere
nt
loca
tio
ns
thro
ugh
ou
t th
e st
ate
of
Texa
s. W
e co
nti
nu
e to
mai
nta
in a
str
on
g re
lati
on
ship
wit
h t
he
Hir
ing
ou
r H
ero
es o
rgan
izat
ion
wit
h t
he
U. S
. C
ham
ber
of
Co
mm
erce
org
aniz
ing
hir
ing
even
ts a
nd
ed
uca
tin
g em
plo
yers
on
vet
eran
's s
kills
. We
wo
rk c
lose
ly w
ith
th
e Te
xas Workforce
Co
mm
issi
on
to
bec
om
e m
ore
clo
sely
inte
grat
ed w
ith
th
e B
usi
nes
s Service
Un
its,
th
e Te
xas
Vet
eran
s Le
ader
ship
Pro
gram
, an
d C
om
mis
sio
ner
Ru
th R
. Hu
ghs
and
th
e "W
e H
ire
Vet
s" in
itia
tive
.
17
Age
ncy
Te
xas
Vet
eran
s C
om
mis
sio
n
Go
al A
rea
1
– F
ocu
s o
n E
mp
loye
rs
Stra
tegy
U
se t
hir
d-p
arty
, in
du
stry
-bas
ed
cer
tifi
cati
on
s w
her
e re
leva
nt
as a
n e
du
cati
on
or
trai
nin
g o
utc
om
e to
co
nn
ect
grad
uat
e co
mp
eten
cies
to
job
ski
ll re
qu
irem
ents
.
Par
t 1
–Sta
tus
Up
dat
e f
or
Act
ion
s
Act
ual
[m
m/y
y]
Spec
ifie
d in
Pla
n
FY 2
01
7 S
tatu
s St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
Act
ion
St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
0
8/1
7
Wo
rk w
ith
reg
ula
tory
age
nci
es
to u
se t
he
Texa
s D
epar
tmen
t o
f Li
cen
sure
an
d
Reg
ula
tio
n’s
pri
mer
fo
r d
eve
lop
ing
serv
ice
cred
it f
or
occ
up
atio
nal
lice
nsi
ng
as a
gu
ide
for
accu
rate
ly e
valu
atin
g m
ilita
ry s
ervi
ce c
red
it b
y d
evel
op
ing
stan
dar
diz
ed t
rain
ing
for
oth
er r
egu
lato
ry a
gen
cie
s to
ad
op
t an
d t
ailo
r fo
r th
eir
spec
ific
age
ncy
.
On
goin
g FY
20
19
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
0
8/1
7
Wo
rk w
ith
reg
ula
tory
age
nci
es
to e
stab
lish
a p
roce
ss f
or
a m
ilita
ry s
erv
ice
mem
ber
or
vete
ran
to
su
bm
it a
n a
pp
licat
ion
fo
r a
licen
se o
r ap
pre
nti
cesh
ip a
nd
to
ob
tain
cre
dit
fo
r ve
rifi
ed m
ilita
ry e
xper
ien
ce, s
ervi
ce, t
rain
ing,
or
edu
cati
on
.
On
goin
g FY
20
19
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
0
8/1
7
Wo
rk w
ith
reg
ula
tory
age
nci
es
to p
ost
th
ose
Mili
tary
Occ
up
atio
nal
Sta
nd
ard
cla
ssif
icat
ion
s o
r d
esig
nat
ors
th
at c
orr
esp
on
d t
o li
cen
sed
occ
up
atio
ns
to e
stab
lish
a c
lear
su
pp
ort
sys
tem
to
en
sure
as
man
y ve
tera
ns
as p
oss
ible
are
aw
are
of
job
op
tio
ns.
On
goin
g FY
20
19
Par
t 2
–FY
20
17
Ke
y A
ctiv
itie
s
Texa
s D
epar
tmen
t o
f Li
cen
sure
an
d R
egu
lati
on
s is
an
inte
grat
ed p
artn
er a
nd
wo
rkgr
ou
p c
om
mit
tee
mem
ber
in t
he
Texa
s C
oo
rdin
atin
g C
ou
nci
l fo
r V
eter
ans
Serv
ies.
Th
e Te
xas
Vet
eran
s C
om
mis
sio
n w
ork
s cl
ose
ly w
ith
oth
er a
gen
cie
s th
at h
ave
licen
sin
g o
r ap
pre
nti
cesh
ip a
uth
ori
ty t
o e
nsu
re t
hat
th
e eq
uiv
ilen
t m
ilita
ry e
xper
ien
ce is
ap
pro
pri
ate
ly c
on
sid
ered
.
18
Age
ncy
Te
xas
Wo
rkfo
rce
Co
mm
issi
on
Go
al A
rea
1
– F
ocu
s o
n E
mp
loye
rs
Stra
tegy
U
se t
hir
d-p
arty
, in
du
stry
-bas
ed
cer
tifi
cati
on
s w
her
e re
leva
nt
as a
n e
du
cati
on
or
trai
nin
g o
utc
om
e to
co
nn
ect
grad
uat
e co
mp
eten
cies
to
job
ski
ll re
qu
irem
ents
.
Par
t 1
–Sta
tus
Up
dat
e f
or
Act
ion
s
Act
ual
[m
m/y
y]
Spec
ifie
d in
Pla
n
FY 2
01
7 S
tatu
s St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
Act
ion
St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
Fin
aliz
ed
01
/15
1
2/1
6
Exp
and
tra
inin
g st
rate
gies
an
d o
pti
on
s to
incr
ease
ind
ust
ry-b
ased
cer
tifi
cati
on
s o
ffer
ed in
re
spo
nse
to
em
plo
yer-
de
fin
ed
nee
ds
by
wo
rkin
g th
rou
gh lo
cal w
ork
forc
e b
oar
ds
to
iden
tify
cer
tifi
cati
on
s th
at s
up
po
rt lo
cal e
mp
loye
rs a
nd
bu
ildin
g ca
pac
ity
to p
rovi
de
tho
se
cert
ific
atio
ns.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
7
Par
t 2
–FY
20
17
Ke
y A
ctiv
itie
s
Exp
and
tra
inin
g st
rate
gies
an
d o
pti
on
s to
incr
ease
ind
ust
ry-b
ased
cer
tifi
cati
on
s…
In J
anu
ary
20
15
, th
e C
om
mis
sio
n d
istr
ibu
ted
$2
.5 m
illio
n t
o t
he
loca
l wo
rkfo
rce
dev
elo
pm
ent
bo
ard
s fo
r an
Ind
ust
ry R
eco
gniz
ed S
kills
Init
iati
ve.
Cer
tifi
cati
on
s w
ere
awar
ded
in a
nu
mb
er o
f ar
eas
such
as
man
ufa
ctu
rin
g, h
ealt
hca
re, c
on
stru
ctio
n, i
nfo
rmat
ion
tec
hn
olo
gy, a
nd
tra
nsp
ort
atio
n.
Ove
r 2
50
cer
tifi
cati
on
s w
ere
rece
ived
in m
anu
fact
uri
ng
in a
reas
su
ch a
s 5
5 M
anu
fact
uri
ng
Skill
Sta
nd
ard
s C
ou
nci
l, 2
0 N
atio
nal
Inst
itu
te f
or
Met
alw
ork
ing
Skill
s, 1
9 C
om
pu
teri
zed
Nu
mer
ical
C
on
tro
l mac
hin
ists
, 11
9 A
mer
ican
Wel
din
g So
ciet
y w
eld
ers,
etc
. In
th
e h
ealt
hca
re f
ield
23
7 c
erti
fica
tio
ns
wer
e aw
ard
ed
, su
ch a
s 1
10
reg
iste
red
nu
rse
s, 2
0 li
scen
sed
vo
cati
on
al n
urs
es,
71
ce
rtif
ied
nu
rse
aid
es/c
erti
fied
me
dic
atio
n a
ide
s, a
nd
12
me
dic
al c
od
ing.
In
co
nst
ruct
ion
, 13
cer
tifi
cati
on
s w
ere
awar
de
d in
HV
AC
, 2 in
plu
mb
ing,
9 in
pip
efit
tin
g, a
nd
10
in m
aso
nry
. Fo
rty-
thre
e ce
rtif
icat
ion
s w
ere
awar
ded
in in
form
atio
n t
ech
no
logy
, 14
0 in
tra
nsp
ort
atio
n, 1
25
in h
ealt
h a
nd
saf
ety
fiel
ds,
an
d 3
8 in
a v
arie
ty o
f fi
eld
s. I
n t
ota
l, o
ver
85
0 c
erti
fica
tio
ns
wer
e re
ceiv
ed.
19
Age
ncy
W
ind
ham
Sch
oo
l Dis
tric
t (T
exas
Dep
artm
ent
of
Cri
min
al J
ust
ice)
Go
al A
rea
1
– F
ocu
s o
n E
mp
loye
rs
Stra
tegy
U
se t
hir
d-p
arty
, in
du
stry
-bas
ed
cer
tifi
cati
on
s w
her
e re
leva
nt
as a
n e
du
cati
on
or
trai
nin
g o
utc
om
e to
co
nn
ect
grad
uat
e co
mp
eten
cies
to
jo
b s
kill
req
uir
emen
ts.
Par
t 1
–Sta
tus
Up
dat
e f
or
Act
ion
s
Act
ual
[m
m/y
y]
Spec
ifie
d in
Pla
n
FY 2
01
7 S
tatu
s St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
Act
ion
St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
C
on
tin
ue
to d
evel
op
an
d m
ain
tain
par
tner
ship
s b
etw
een
ind
ust
ry a
nd
th
e W
ind
ham
Sc
ho
ol D
istr
ict
in o
rder
to
pro
vid
e ce
rtif
icat
ion
s to
stu
den
ts t
hat
will
fu
lfill
job
re
qu
irem
ents
in t
he
curr
ent
wo
rkfo
rce
mar
ket.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
6
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
Ex
pan
d t
he
nu
mb
er o
f ca
reer
an
d t
ech
nic
al e
du
cati
on
cla
sses
pro
vid
ing
ind
ust
ry s
tan
dar
d
cert
ific
atio
ns.
FY
20
16
FY
20
19
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
Ex
pan
d t
he
care
er a
nd
tec
hn
ical
ed
uca
tio
n p
rogr
ams
off
ere
d b
y W
ind
ham
Sch
oo
l Dis
tric
t,
and
eva
luat
e p
rogr
am e
ffec
tive
nes
s.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
9
Par
t 2
–FY
20
17
Ke
y A
ctiv
itie
s
WSD
wo
uld
like
to
re
qu
est
to
ch
ange
th
e e
nd
dat
e fo
r t
he
firs
t lin
e ac
tio
n (
beg
ins
wit
h "
Co
nti
nu
e to
dev
elo
p a
nd
mai
nta
in p
artn
ersh
ips"
) to
FY
20
20
. Dev
elo
pm
ent
wit
h in
du
stry
co
mp
anie
s is
o
n-g
oin
g. C
urr
entl
y 2
5 p
artn
ersh
ips
hav
e b
een
dev
elo
ped
wit
h in
du
stry
co
mp
anie
s. A
s a
resu
lt, p
artn
ers
assi
sted
WSD
Car
eer
and
Tec
hn
ical
Ed
uca
tio
n s
taff
in m
od
ifyi
ng
curr
icu
lum
. Im
pro
vem
ent
incl
ud
ed a
dd
ing
curr
ent
ind
ust
ry p
ract
ices
wh
ich
hel
p s
tud
ents
pre
par
e fo
r th
e w
ork
forc
e.
WSD
has
exp
and
ed
th
e fo
llow
ing
CTE
pro
gram
s at
th
e St
ate
Jail
faci
litie
s:
Elec
tro
nic
Sys
tem
s Te
chn
icia
n, a
nd
Sci
ence
, Tec
hn
olo
gy, E
ngi
ne
eri
ng
and
Mat
h (
STEM
) P
rogr
ams-
-In
tro
du
ctio
n t
o T
elec
om
mu
nic
atio
ns
Co
nn
ecti
on
s,C
op
per
Cab
ling,
En
ergy
M
anag
eme
nt,
Fib
er O
pti
cs C
ablin
g an
d A
ud
io/V
isu
al S
yste
ms
Exp
and
ed C
om
pu
ter
Nu
mer
ical
Co
ntr
ol M
ach
inin
g (5
Axi
s an
d M
illin
g) a
t St
ate
Jails
an
d In
stit
uti
on
al D
ivis
ion
. Ex
pan
ded
OSH
A, C
on
stru
ctio
n F
un
dam
enta
ls, a
nd
Saf
ety
pro
gram
s at
Sta
te J
ails
, In
stit
uti
on
al D
ivis
ion
an
d T
ran
sfer
Fac
iliti
es.
WSD
eva
luat
es
ou
r p
rogr
am e
ffe
ctiv
enes
s b
y th
e in
crea
se in
ind
ust
ry c
erti
fica
tio
ns
fro
m 1
8,5
32
in S
Y 1
6 t
o 2
4,8
76
in S
Y 1
7 (
YTD
). T
he
Win
dh
am S
cho
ol D
istr
ict
Pro
gram
Eva
luat
ion
Rep
ort
, p
ub
lish
ed in
Jan
uar
y 2
01
7 in
clu
des
th
e b
ien
nia
l eva
luat
ion
of
ou
r C
TE p
rogr
ams.
Th
e re
po
rt m
ay b
e fo
un
d a
t:
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ive_
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uir
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ort
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ham
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ol_
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tric
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rogr
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atio
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20
Goa
l Are
a 2:
Engage
in Partnerships
Wha
t is the
objectiv
e?
How
are sy
stem
partners a
ddressing it?
Wha
t was accom
plishe
d this yea
r?
Expand partnerships with system
partners and stakeholders to promote
collaboration, joint planning, and
enhanced participant outcomes.
TWC is working to im
prove reh
abilitation employm
ent
outcomes by establishing additional partnerships with
secondary and postsecondary en
tities, and with
employers.
TWC is creating greater access and effective services by
promoting collaboration and regional planning.
THEC
B and TWC are increasing access to, referral
between, and outcomes of adult education program
s and services.
1.37 percent of vocational reh
abilitation consumers
participated
in integrated
, work‐based
learning
activities
10.19 percent of individuals in vocational
rehabilitation program
s were co‐enrolled in
workforce program
s
7.21 percent of individuals in adult education
program
s were co‐enrolled in workforce program
s (TWC)
Of studen
ts successfully completing a community
and technical college Accelerate Texas program
that
integrated
basic skills with career and technical
pathways: (TH
ECB)
7.94 percent received
a Level 1 or Level 2
certificate or an
associate’s degree
81.73 percent entered employm
ent and/or
were en
rolled in education or training
Through
collaborative and transparen
t processes, w
orkforce system
partners focus on outcomes that im
prove the em
ployability of all program
participants—from across a wide spectrum of capabilities and experiences—
to m
eet em
ployer needs. The leveraging of partnerships to enhance system
alignmen
t and outcomes dep
ends on trust, a culture of collaboration both within and external to the workforce system
, deep working relationships, and
technical capacity to communicate to share needs, data, and inform
ation. Partnerships can provide for common planning, intake, and rep
orting on
outcomes, as well as en
sure a “no wrong door” approach to the provision of workforce program
s and services.
Win
dh
am is
est
ablis
hin
g an
d le
vera
gin
g re
gio
nal
em
plo
yer
par
tner
ship
s to
ben
efit
stu
den
ts p
re-
and
p
ost
- re
leas
e.
Em
plo
yer
sati
sfac
tio
n d
ata
was
no
t re
po
rted
.
22
Engage in Partnerships: Action Plan Implementation Summaries
Through collaborative and transparent processes, workforce system partners focus on outcomes that improve the employability of all program participants—from across a wide spectrum of capabilities and experiences—to meet employer needs. The leveraging of partnerships to enhance system alignment and outcomes depends on trust, a culture of collaboration both within and external to the workforce system, deep working relationships, and technical capacity to communicate to share needs, data, and information. Partnerships can provide for common planning, intake, and reporting on outcomes, as well as ensuring a “no wrong door” approach to the provision of workforce programs and services.
System Partner Strategy Agency System Objective System Goal
Improve rehabilitation employment outcomes by establishing additional partnerships with secondary and postsecondary entities, and employers.
TWC
Expand partnerships with system partners and stakeholders to promote collaboration, joint planning, and enhanced participant outcomes.
Engage in partnerships
Create greater access and effective services by promoting collaboration and regional planning.
TWC
Increase access to, referral between, and outcomes of adult education programs and services.
TWC THECB
Establish and leverage regional employer partnerships to benefit students pre‐ and post‐release.
TDCJ
Three agencies are committed to expanding partnerships to better serve employers and workforce program participants
The following pages include action plan reports from each of the partner agencies. Please note that the reports contain information verbatim as submitted by the agencies.
23
Age
ncy
Te
xas
Hig
her
Ed
uca
tio
n C
oo
rdin
atin
g B
oar
d
Go
al A
rea
2
– E
nga
ge in
Par
tner
ship
s
Stra
tegy
In
crea
se a
cce
ss t
o, r
efe
rral
be
twee
n, a
nd
ou
tco
me
s o
f ad
ult
ed
uca
tio
n p
rogr
ams
and
ser
vice
s.
Par
t 1
–Sta
tus
Up
dat
e f
or
Act
ion
s
Act
ual
[m
m/y
y]
Spec
ifie
d in
Pla
n
FY 2
01
7 S
tatu
s St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
Act
ion
St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
In p
rogr
ess
09
/10
0
8/1
9
Incr
ease
th
e n
um
ber
of
com
mu
nit
y an
d t
ech
nic
al c
olle
ges
pro
vid
ing
targ
eted
ad
ult
ed
uca
tio
n s
ervi
ces
that
tra
nsi
tio
n s
tud
ents
into
hig
her
ed
uca
tio
n.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
9
In p
rogr
ess
01
/11
0
8/1
9
Pro
vid
e st
atew
ide
pro
gram
su
pp
ort
an
d p
rofe
ssio
nal
dev
elo
pm
ent
to im
pro
ve t
arge
ted
ad
ult
ed
uca
tio
n s
ervi
ces
pro
vid
ed t
hro
ugh
co
mm
un
ity
and
tec
hn
ical
co
llege
s.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
9
In p
rogr
ess
09
/10
0
8/1
9
Incr
ease
th
e n
um
ber
of
com
mu
nit
y an
d t
ech
nic
al c
olle
ges
par
tner
ing
wit
h lo
cal a
du
lt
edu
cati
on
an
d li
tera
cy p
rovi
der
s to
su
pp
ort
th
e tr
ansi
tio
n o
f st
ud
ents
into
an
d t
hro
ugh
h
igh
er e
du
cati
on
.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
9
In p
rogr
ess
10
/16
D
evel
op
an
d im
ple
men
t a
stu
den
t re
ferr
al s
yste
m b
etw
een
fed
eral
ly f
un
ded
ad
ult
ed
uca
tio
n a
nd
lite
racy
pro
vid
ers
and
co
mm
un
ity
and
tec
hn
ical
co
llege
s to
ass
ist
ind
ivid
ual
s se
ekin
g ad
ult
ed
uca
tio
n s
ervi
ces
fin
d a
pro
gram
res
po
nsi
ve t
o t
hei
r n
eed
s. If
de
emed
ap
pro
pri
ate,
co
nsi
der
inte
grat
ion
of
com
mu
nit
y-b
ased
pro
vid
ers
into
th
e re
ferr
al s
yste
m.
(Ref
erra
l sys
tem
mea
sure
to
be
dev
elo
ped
pri
or
to im
ple
me
nta
tio
n.)
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
9
Par
t 2
–FY
20
17
Ke
y A
ctiv
itie
s
•In
FY
20
11
, TH
ECB
fu
nd
ed 8
co
mm
un
ity
colle
ge s
yste
ms
to d
o t
arge
ted
ad
ult
ed
uca
tio
n s
ervi
ces
to t
ran
siti
on
stu
den
ts t
o in
tegr
ated
ed
uca
tio
n a
nd
tra
inin
g an
d in
ten
sive
co
llege
rea
din
ess
pro
gram
s. B
y th
e st
art
of
FY2
01
6, 2
7 d
istr
icts
had
rec
eive
d o
r w
ere
still
fu
nd
ed t
o s
up
po
rt a
du
lt e
du
cati
on
ser
vice
s th
at s
up
po
rted
stu
den
t tr
ansi
tio
n.
•A
t th
e cl
ose
of
FY 2
01
7, 2
4 d
istr
icts
are
co
nti
nu
ing
to r
ecei
ve f
un
din
g.•
To m
eet
the
nee
ds
of under-prepared
stu
den
ts w
ho
fal
l far
bel
ow
co
llege
rea
din
ess
on
th
e Te
xas
Succ
ess
Init
iati
ve A
sses
smen
t (T
SIA
), a
ll 5
0 c
om
mu
nit
y co
llege
dis
tric
ts a
re r
equ
ired
to
hav
eo
n-c
amp
us
pro
gram
s fo
r st
ud
ents
in n
eed
of
adu
lt e
du
cati
on
ser
vice
s o
r b
e in
par
tner
ship
wit
h a
du
lt e
du
cati
on
ser
vice
s in
th
e co
mm
un
ity.
•Fr
om
FY
20
11
th
rou
gh F
Y 2
01
6, T
HEC
B h
eld
tw
o t
ech
nic
al a
ssis
tan
ce m
eeti
ngs
per
yea
r fo
r fu
nd
ed a
nd
no
n-f
un
ded
co
mm
un
ity
and
tec
hn
ical
co
llege
s, p
artn
erin
g w
ork
forc
e b
oar
ds,
an
d s
oci
alse
rvic
e ag
enci
es w
ork
ing
wit
h a
du
lt le
arn
ers
on
su
pp
ort
ing
the
tran
siti
on
an
d c
red
enti
al c
om
ple
tio
n o
f st
ud
ents
iden
tifi
ed a
s el
igib
le f
or
adu
lt e
du
cati
on
ser
vice
s.•
In F
Y 2
01
7, T
HEC
B s
up
po
rted
fo
ur
stat
ewid
e re
gio
nal
mee
tin
gs a
nd
invi
ted
all
com
mu
nit
y an
d t
ech
nic
al c
olle
ges
in t
he
regi
on
to
lear
n a
bo
ut
eval
uat
ion
ou
tco
mes
of
the
THEC
B-f
un
ded
A
ccel
erat
e TX
pro
gram
fro
m 2
01
4 t
hro
ugh
20
17
.•
Hel
d in
itia
l mee
tin
g w
ith
TW
C’s
AEL
pro
gram
ab
ou
t th
e re
ferr
al s
yste
m; T
WC
ind
icat
ed t
hat
th
ey h
ave
the
pro
vid
er d
irec
tory
ho
use
d a
t TC
ALL
fo
r an
yon
e to
use
to
iden
tify
pro
vid
ers
by
zip
co
de,
cit
y, o
r se
rvic
es. A
lso
hel
d a
mee
tin
g w
ith
rep
rese
nta
tive
s fr
om
th
e Te
xas
Co
nn
ecto
r w
ho
are
wo
rkin
g w
ith
TW
C’s
AEL
pro
gram
to
pilo
t th
e C
on
nec
tor
wit
h a
few
AEL
pro
vid
ers
to s
up
po
rtco
nn
ecti
ng
stu
den
ts t
o s
oci
al s
ervi
ce p
rovi
der
s an
d o
ther
ser
vice
s in
th
eir
regi
on
. Wit
ho
ut
fun
ds,
it is
no
t p
oss
ible
to
exp
lore
a m
ore
ro
bu
st r
efer
ral s
yste
m t
hat
allo
ws
stu
den
ts t
o a
cces
sm
ult
iple
ser
vice
s in
on
e p
lace
an
d t
o s
har
e th
eir
his
tory
or
serv
ices
an
d a
ctiv
itie
s w
ith
hig
her
ed
uca
tio
n a
dvi
sors
.•
Furt
her
, as
of
the
85
th T
exas
Leg
isla
ture
(2
01
7),
TH
ECB
no
lon
ger
has
fu
nd
s to
su
pp
ort
tar
gete
d a
du
lt e
du
cati
on
ser
vice
s an
d t
ran
siti
on
pro
gram
s in
co
ord
inat
ion
wit
h c
om
mu
nit
y an
d
tech
nic
al c
olle
ges.
24
Age
ncy
Te
xas
Wo
rkfo
rce
Co
mm
issi
on
Go
al A
rea
2
– E
nga
ge in
Par
tner
ship
s
Stra
tegy
Im
pro
ve r
ehab
ilita
tio
n e
mp
loym
ent
ou
tco
me
s b
y es
tab
lish
ing
add
itio
nal
par
tner
ship
s w
ith
sec
on
dar
y an
d p
ost
seco
nd
ary
enti
ties
, an
d e
mp
loye
rs.
Par
t 1
–Sta
tus
Up
dat
e f
or
Act
ion
s
Act
ual
[m
m/y
y]
Spec
ifie
d in
Pla
n
FY 2
01
7 S
tatu
s St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
Act
ion
St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
In p
rogr
ess
01
/17
D
evel
op
an
d e
xpan
d p
artn
ersh
ips
wit
h s
yste
m p
artn
ers,
incl
ud
ing
ind
epen
den
t sc
ho
ol
dis
tric
ts, e
du
cati
on
al s
ervi
ce c
ente
rs, c
om
mu
nit
y an
d t
ech
nic
al c
olle
ges,
sta
keh
old
ers,
an
d
emp
loye
rs t
o in
crea
se t
he
avai
lab
ility
an
d c
oo
rdin
atio
n o
f in
tegr
ated
wo
rk-b
ased
lear
nin
g o
pp
ort
un
itie
s su
ch a
s w
ork
exp
erie
nce
, pre
-ap
pre
nti
cesh
ip, a
pp
ren
tice
ship
, in
tern
ship
, jo
b s
had
ow
ing,
an
d o
n-t
he-
job
tra
inin
g.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
8
In p
rogr
ess
09
/17
D
evel
op
an
d im
ple
men
t a
coo
rdin
ated
ap
pro
ach
to
ser
vin
g em
plo
yers
th
rou
gh
colla
bo
rati
on
wit
h lo
cal w
ork
forc
e b
oar
ds
and
wo
rkfo
rce
cen
ters
. FY
20
16
FY
20
19
In p
rogr
ess
09
/15
Ex
pan
d c
olla
bo
rati
on
wit
h s
tate
an
d f
eder
al p
artn
ers
to in
crea
se e
nga
gem
ent
of
emp
loye
rs, i
ncl
ud
ing
fed
eral
co
ntr
acto
rs, t
o p
rom
ote
aw
are
nes
s, r
ecru
itm
ent,
hir
ing,
an
d
rete
nti
on
of
qu
alif
ied
ind
ivid
ual
s w
ith
dis
abili
ties
.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
7
In p
rogr
ess
09
/15
Ex
pan
d p
artn
ersh
ips
wit
h f
eder
al, s
tate
, an
d lo
cal p
artn
ers,
su
ch a
s th
e V
eter
ans
Ad
min
istr
atio
n a
nd
co
mm
un
ity
men
tal h
ealt
h s
erv
ice
pro
vid
ers,
to
en
han
ce c
olla
bo
rati
on
an
d c
oo
rdin
atio
n o
f se
rvic
es f
or
vete
ran
s w
ith
dis
abili
ties
.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
9
Par
t 2
–FY
20
17
Ke
y A
ctiv
itie
s
Dev
elo
p a
nd
exp
and
par
tner
ship
s…
The
Co
mm
issi
on
ap
pro
ved
a V
oca
tio
nal
Reh
abili
tati
on
Pat
hw
ays
to C
aree
rs In
itia
tive
(P
CI)
on
Jan
uar
y 3
1, 2
01
7. P
CI w
ill e
xpan
d P
re-E
mp
loym
ent
Tran
siti
on
Se
rvic
es (
Pre
-ETS
) to
Tex
as s
tud
ents
w
ith
dis
abili
ties
an
d b
uild
up
on
th
e P
re-E
TS a
ctiv
itie
s al
read
y u
nd
erw
ay.
PC
I will
eff
ecti
vely
pre
par
e st
ud
ents
wit
h d
isab
iliti
es t
o a
chie
ve c
om
pet
itiv
e, in
tegr
ated
em
plo
ymen
t th
rou
gh
par
tici
pat
ion
in e
mp
loya
bili
ty s
kills
an
d w
ork
rea
din
ess
tra
inin
g, c
aree
r e
xplo
rati
on
act
ivit
ies,
wo
rk e
xper
ien
ce, a
nd
po
stse
con
dar
y e
du
cati
on
. P
CI i
ncl
ud
es f
ive
new
str
ateg
ies
com
pri
sed
of
two
st
atew
ide
stra
tegi
es
and
th
ree
de
mo
nst
rati
on
pro
ject
s: S
um
mer
Ear
n a
nd
Lea
rn, C
har
tin
g th
e C
ou
rse:
Pla
nn
ing
for
Life
an
d C
aree
rs a
fter
Hig
h S
cho
ol,
Car
eer
Pat
hw
ays
Aca
dem
ies,
Exp
lore
ST
EM!,
an
d T
ran
siti
on
Pla
nn
ing
for
Stu
de
nts
in P
riva
te a
nd
Ho
me
Sch
oo
ls. T
he
stra
tegi
es
will
be
imp
lem
en
ted
in F
isca
l Yea
rs 2
01
7 a
nd
20
18
.
The
firs
t P
CI s
trat
egy
to
be
imp
lem
ente
d is
Su
mm
er E
arn
an
d L
earn
. La
un
ched
in M
ay 2
01
7, t
his
str
ateg
y is
a w
ork
-bas
ed
pro
gram
co
nd
uct
ed in
par
tner
ship
wit
h t
he
twen
ty-e
igh
t Lo
cal
Wo
rkfo
rce
Dev
elo
pm
ent
Bo
ard
s an
d t
hei
r em
plo
yer
par
tner
s. T
hro
ugh
Su
mm
er E
arn
an
d L
earn
, mo
re t
han
1,5
00
Tex
as s
tud
ents
wit
h d
isab
iliti
es p
arti
cip
ated
in e
mp
loya
bili
ty s
kills
tra
inin
g an
d a
fiv
e to
eig
ht-
wee
k p
aid
wo
rk e
xper
ien
ce a
ssig
nm
ent.
25
The
Tex
as
Wo
rkfo
rce
Syst
em S
tra
teg
ic P
lan
FY
201
6–F
Y 2
023
: A
ctio
n P
lan
Re
po
rts
for
Eva
lua
tio
n 2
017
D
evel
op
an
d im
ple
men
t a
coo
rdin
ated
ap
pro
ach
to
ser
vin
g em
plo
yers
…
In F
Y 2
01
7, T
WC
lau
nch
ed a
sta
tew
ide
Hir
eA
bili
ty c
amp
aign
to
ed
uca
te e
mp
loye
rs o
n t
he
ben
efit
s o
f h
irin
g p
erso
ns
wit
h d
isab
ilit
ies.
Th
e ca
mp
aign
beg
an in
Sep
tem
ber
20
16
, an
d f
eatu
red
in
form
atio
nal
pu
blic
atio
ns
and
oth
er r
eso
urc
es, s
uch
as
vid
eo t
esti
mo
nia
ls t
o a
ssis
t em
plo
yers
in h
irin
g in
div
idu
als
wit
h d
isab
ilite
s. V
oca
tio
nal
Reh
abili
tati
on
(V
R)
staf
f, in
co
ord
inat
ion
wit
h
com
mu
nit
y p
artn
ers
an
d lo
cal w
ork
forc
e d
evel
op
me
nt
bo
ard
s al
so c
on
du
cte
d a
var
iety
of
Hir
eAb
ility
eve
nts
in t
hei
r co
mm
un
itie
s, in
clu
din
g jo
b f
airs
, stu
de
nt
care
er e
xpo
s an
d e
mp
loye
r d
isab
iltiy
aw
aren
ess
pre
sen
tati
on
s an
d e
ven
ts.
Thes
e H
ireA
bili
ty e
ven
ts w
ere
con
du
cted
in O
cto
ber
20
16
, in
co
nju
nct
ion
wit
h N
atio
nal
Dis
abili
ty E
mp
loym
ent
Aw
aren
ess
Mo
nth
.
Exp
and
co
llab
ora
tio
n w
ith
sta
te a
nd
fed
eral
par
tner
s to
incr
ease
en
gage
men
t o
f em
plo
yers
…
In F
Y 2
01
7, T
WC
VR
co
nti
nu
ed t
o c
oo
rdin
ate
wit
h t
he
U.S
. De
par
tmen
t o
f La
bo
r’s
Off
ice
of
Fed
eral
Co
ntr
act
Co
mp
lian
ce P
rogr
ams
(OFC
CP
), t
he
Vet
eran
s A
dm
inis
trat
ion
, an
d lo
cal w
ork
forc
e d
evel
op
me
nt
bo
ard
s to
pla
n a
nd
co
nd
uct
join
t h
irin
g ev
ents
fo
r fe
der
al c
on
trac
tors
an
d s
ub
con
trac
tors
to
su
pp
ort
of
the
ir im
ple
men
tati
on
of
Sect
ion
50
3 o
f th
e R
ehab
ilita
tio
n A
ct o
f 1
97
3, a
s am
end
ed
(Se
ctio
n 5
03
) an
d t
he
Vie
tnam
Era
Vet
eran
s’ R
ead
just
me
nt
Ass
ista
nce
Act
(V
EVR
AA
) re
gula
tio
ns.
Sec
tio
n 5
03
req
uir
es
fed
era
l co
ntr
acto
rs a
nd
su
bco
ntr
acto
rs t
o p
roac
tive
ly r
ecru
it,
emp
loy,
tra
in, a
nd
pro
mo
te q
ual
ifie
d in
div
idu
als
wit
h d
isab
iliti
es.
VEV
RA
A r
equ
lati
on
s st
ren
gth
en t
he
pro
visi
on
s th
at r
equ
ire
con
trac
tors
to
rec
ruit
an
d h
ire
pro
tect
ed
vet
eran
s an
d im
pro
ve
job
op
po
rtu
nit
ies
for
pro
tect
ed
vet
eran
s. I
n F
Y 2
01
6 a
nd
FY
20
17
to
dat
e, o
ver
30
0 f
eder
al c
on
trac
tors
hav
e p
arti
cip
ate
d in
dis
abili
ty a
war
enes
s an
d h
irin
g ev
ents
aro
un
d t
he
stat
e an
d m
any
hav
e h
ired
per
son
s w
ith
dis
abili
ties
. Eve
nts
su
ch a
s b
usi
ne
ss s
ymp
osi
um
s an
d t
arge
ted
job
fai
rs f
or
fed
eral
co
ntr
acto
rs h
ave
off
ered
val
uab
le jo
b s
earc
h o
pp
ort
un
itie
s fo
r al
mo
st 3
,00
0 V
R
cust
om
ers.
TW
C V
R is
wo
rkin
g to
exp
and
th
is e
ffo
rt b
y co
ord
inat
ing
mo
re c
lose
ly w
ith
th
e V
eter
ans
Car
eer
Ad
viso
rs a
nd
Em
plo
yer
Liai
son
s in
th
e W
ork
forc
e So
luti
on
s O
ffic
es.
Exp
and
par
tner
ship
s w
ith
fed
eral
, sta
te, a
nd
loca
l par
tner
s…
TWC
VR
co
nti
nu
es t
o w
ork
wit
h t
he
Vet
eran
s A
dm
inis
trat
ion
an
d c
om
mu
nit
y m
enta
l hea
lth
pro
vid
ers
to
co
ord
inat
e se
rvic
es
for
vete
ran
s w
ith
dis
abili
ties
; ho
wev
er, t
he
dev
elo
pm
ent
an
d
imp
lem
enta
tio
n o
f ad
dit
ion
al p
artn
ersh
ips
or
stra
tegi
es h
as b
een
del
ayed
to
FY
20
18
.
26
Age
ncy
Te
xas
Wo
rkfo
rce
Co
mm
issi
on
Go
al A
rea
2
– E
nga
ge in
Par
tner
ship
s
Stra
tegy
C
reat
e gr
eate
r ac
cess
an
d e
ffec
tive
ser
vice
s b
y p
rom
oti
ng
colla
bo
rati
on
an
d r
egio
nal
pla
nn
ing.
Par
t 1
–Sta
tus
Up
dat
e f
or
Act
ion
s
Act
ual
[m
m/y
y]
Spec
ifie
d in
Pla
n
FY 2
01
7 S
tatu
s St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
Act
ion
St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
Fin
aliz
ed
09
/15
0
8/1
7
Co
nd
uct
reg
ion
al id
enti
fica
tio
n a
nd
pla
nn
ing
in c
oo
per
atio
n w
ith
loca
l wo
rkfo
rce
bo
ard
s, in
ac
cord
ance
wit
h t
he
Wo
rkfo
rce
Inn
ova
tio
n a
nd
Op
po
rtu
nit
y A
ct.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
7
Fin
aliz
ed
07
/15
0
8/1
7
Co
nd
uct
pla
nn
ing
in c
oo
per
atio
n w
ith
vo
cati
on
al r
ehab
ilita
tio
n s
ervi
ces,
in a
cco
rdan
ce
wit
h t
he
Wo
rkfo
rce
Inn
ova
tio
n a
nd
Op
po
rtu
nit
y A
ct.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
6
In p
rogr
ess
03
/16
C
olla
bo
rate
wit
h t
he
Texa
s H
igh
er E
du
cati
on
Co
ord
inat
ing
Bo
ard
an
d t
he
Texa
s Ed
uca
tio
n
Age
ncy
on
init
iati
ves
to in
crea
se a
cces
s to
co
nsu
mer
info
rmat
ion
an
d t
o d
evel
op
, im
ple
men
t, a
nd
su
pp
ort
eff
ect
ive
edu
cati
on
an
d t
rain
ing
mo
del
s.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
9
Par
t 2
–FY
20
17
Ke
y A
ctiv
itie
s
Co
nd
uct
reg
ion
al id
enti
fica
tio
n a
nd
pla
nn
ing…
Texa
s’ B
oar
ds
are
curr
entl
y ac
com
plis
hin
g th
e W
ork
forc
e In
no
vati
on
an
d O
pp
ort
un
ity
Act
’s e
xpec
tati
on
s fo
r re
gio
nal
pla
nn
ing.
Te
xas'
Lo
cal W
ork
forc
e D
evel
op
men
t A
rea
(LW
DA
) co
nfi
gura
tio
n la
rgel
y su
pp
ort
s re
gio
nal
ism
. A
nd
in a
reas
wit
h s
ingl
e co
un
ty c
ove
rage
, lo
cal p
artn
ers
hip
s ex
ist
to s
up
po
rt r
egi
on
al c
olla
bo
rati
on
. Lo
ng
bef
ore
a f
eder
al r
equ
irem
en
t ex
iste
d,
Bo
ard
s ac
ross
Tex
as h
ad a
dem
on
stra
ted
his
tory
of
colla
bo
rati
on
bey
on
d t
he
des
ign
ate
d w
ork
forc
e ar
eas.
Th
ese
regi
on
al c
olla
bo
rati
ve e
ffo
rts
hav
e re
sult
ed in
wo
rkfo
rce
syst
em le
ader
s p
artn
erin
g to
alig
n w
ork
forc
e p
olic
ies
and
ser
vice
s w
ith
re
gio
nal
eco
no
mie
s an
d s
up
po
rtin
g se
rvic
e d
eliv
ery
str
ate
gie
s ta
ilore
d t
o t
he
se n
eed
s. B
ased
up
on
th
is, T
WC
no
ted
in t
he
WIO
A
Co
mb
ined
Sta
te P
lan
th
at t
he
exis
tin
g LW
DA
co
nfi
gura
tio
n a
cco
mp
lish
ed t
he
WIO
A in
ten
t fo
r re
gio
nal
pla
nn
ing.
Th
e D
ep
artm
en
ts o
f La
bo
r an
d E
du
cati
on
hav
e ap
pro
ved
th
is p
lan
. Ex
amp
les
of
regi
on
al c
olla
bo
rati
on
incl
ud
e:
The
Cap
ital
Are
a B
oar
d h
as p
arti
cip
ated
in t
he
Acc
ele
rati
ng
Co
nn
ect
ion
s to
Em
plo
ymen
t (A
CE)
Nat
ion
al E
valu
atio
n s
tud
y, f
un
ded
by
DO
L’s
Wo
rkfo
rce
Inn
ova
tio
n F
un
d.
AC
E is
dri
ven
by
a co
nso
rtiu
m o
f n
ine
wo
rkfo
rce
inve
stm
ent
bo
ard
s, t
en
co
mm
un
ity
colle
ges,
an
d e
mp
loye
r p
artn
ers
acr
oss
fo
ur
stat
es, t
aske
d w
ith
re
du
cin
g p
ove
rty
by
linki
ng
ed
uca
tio
n, t
rain
ing,
an
d
wo
rkfo
rce
serv
ices
to
cre
ate
skill
-bu
ildin
g o
pp
ort
un
itie
s an
d c
aree
r p
ath
way
s fo
r lo
w-s
kille
d, l
ow
-in
com
e in
div
idu
als.
The
Ru
ral W
ork
forc
e N
etw
ork
(R
WN
) C
on
sort
ium
Bio
tech
no
logy
/Lif
e Sc
ien
ces–
Me
dic
al T
arge
ted
Ind
ust
rie
s P
roje
ct w
as d
esig
ne
d t
o f
urt
her
bu
ild c
apac
ity
to m
eet
the
skill
s re
adin
ess
and
ski
lls
trai
nin
g n
eed
s o
f em
plo
yers
an
d jo
b s
eeke
rs in
th
e R
WN
re
gio
n, t
hro
ugh
an
un
der
stan
din
g o
f em
plo
yers
’ nee
ds,
ass
essm
ents
of
job
see
kers
’ ski
lls, a
nd
th
e cr
eati
on
an
d c
red
en
tial
ing
of
a w
ork
-re
ady
wo
rkfo
rce.
Fiv
e B
oar
ds—
Co
nch
o V
alle
y, W
est
Cen
tral
Tex
as, P
erm
ian
Bas
in, N
ort
h T
exa
s, a
nd
So
uth
Pla
ins—
fou
r em
plo
yers
, an
d n
ine
pu
blic
co
llege
s p
arti
cip
ated
in t
his
pro
ject
.
The
Gre
ate
r D
alla
s, N
ort
h C
entr
al T
exas
, an
d T
arra
nt
Co
un
ty B
oar
ds
hav
e cr
eate
d t
he
Dal
las/
Fort
Wo
rth
Reg
ion
al W
ork
forc
e Le
ader
ship
Co
un
cil (
RW
LC),
th
e d
rivi
ng
forc
e fo
r a
coo
per
ativ
e ap
pro
ach
to
pro
mo
tin
g th
e re
gio
n’s
str
on
gest
ind
ust
ries
an
d s
up
po
rtin
g th
e re
gio
n’s
key
clu
ster
s. R
WLC
wo
rks
to m
eet
ind
ust
rie
s’ n
eed
s th
rou
gh t
he
colla
bo
rati
on
of
the
Bo
ard
s w
ith
ch
amb
ers
of
com
mer
ce a
nd
bu
sin
ess
lead
ers.
27
The
Tex
as
Wo
rkfo
rce
Syst
em S
tra
teg
ic P
lan
FY
201
6–F
Y 2
023
: A
ctio
n P
lan
Re
po
rts
for
Eva
lua
tio
n 2
017
Co
nd
uct
pla
nn
ing
in c
oo
per
atio
n w
ith
vo
cati
on
al r
ehab
ilita
tio
n s
ervi
ces…
TWC
has
en
gage
d in
op
po
rtu
nit
ies
to c
on
du
ct p
lan
nin
g in
co
llab
ora
tio
n w
ith
Vo
cati
on
al R
ehab
ilita
tio
n (
VR
). F
rom
Ju
ly t
hro
ugh
Se
pte
mb
er 2
01
5, a
ser
ies
of
seve
n p
ub
lic m
eeti
ngs
acr
oss
th
e st
ate
rega
rdin
g W
IOA
pla
n d
eve
lop
men
t an
d t
he
tran
siti
on
of
Vo
cati
on
al R
ehab
ilita
tio
n (
VR
) se
rvic
es f
rom
th
e Te
xas
Dep
artm
ent
of
Ass
isti
ve a
nd
Reh
abili
tati
ve S
ervi
ces
(DA
RS)
to
TW
C w
ere
con
du
cted
. Th
ese
mee
tin
gs a
llow
ed f
or
valu
able
inp
ut
fro
m s
take
ho
lder
s o
n b
oth
to
pic
s. L
oca
tio
ns
incl
ud
ed
Au
stin
, Dal
las,
McA
llen
, Ho
ust
on
, Tyl
er, L
ub
bo
ck, a
nd
El P
aso
. In
ad
dit
ion
to
th
e co
mm
ents
rec
eive
d a
dd
ress
ing
wo
rkfo
rce
pla
nn
ing
elem
ents
, th
ere
wer
e m
any
com
men
ters
wh
o p
rovi
ded
inp
ut
on
th
e u
pco
min
g tr
ansi
tio
n o
f vo
cati
on
al r
ehab
ilita
tio
n t
o T
WC
. TW
C a
lso
hel
d
add
itio
nal
mee
tin
gs le
adin
g u
p t
o t
he
crea
tio
n o
f a
new
Vo
cati
on
al R
ehab
ilita
tio
n D
ivis
ion
. TW
C a
lso
co
nd
uct
ed s
even
pu
blic
mee
tin
gs in
Jan
uar
y 2
01
7 t
o p
rovi
de
the
pu
blic
wit
h t
he
op
po
rtu
nit
y to
off
er c
om
men
ts a
bo
ut
the
com
bin
atio
n o
f th
e fo
rmer
DA
RS
Div
isio
n f
or
Reh
abili
tati
on
Ser
vice
s an
d D
ivis
ion
fo
r B
lind
Ser
vice
s in
to o
ne
com
bin
ed d
ivis
ion
.
Co
llab
ora
te w
ith
th
e Te
xas
Hig
he
r Ed
uca
tio
n C
oo
rdin
atin
g B
oar
d a
nd
th
e Te
xas
Edu
cati
on
Age
ncy
…
In M
arch
20
16
, Go
vern
or
Ab
bo
tt e
stab
lish
ed t
he
Tri-
Age
ncy
Wo
rkfo
rce
Init
iati
ve a
nd
tas
ked
th
e C
om
mis
sio
ner
s o
f th
e Te
xas
Edu
cati
on
Age
ncy
(TE
A),
th
e Te
xas
Hig
he
r Ed
uca
tio
n C
oo
rdin
atin
g B
oar
d (
THEC
B),
an
d t
he
Texa
s W
ork
forc
e C
om
mis
sio
n (
TWC
) to
wo
rk t
oge
ther
on
sev
eral
ch
arge
s ce
nte
red
on
dev
elo
pin
g st
ron
g lin
ks b
etw
een
ed
uca
tio
n a
nd
ind
ust
ry.
The
Co
mm
issi
on
ers
of
the
thre
e ag
enci
es
hel
d e
igh
t re
gio
nal
me
eti
ngs
in M
idla
nd
, San
An
ton
io, H
ou
sto
n, D
alla
s, E
l Pas
o, M
cAlle
n, T
yler
, an
d A
ust
in f
rom
Ap
ril t
hro
ugh
Ju
ne
20
16
. Th
e p
urp
ose
o
f th
e m
eeti
ngs
was
to
se
ek in
pu
t fr
om
ind
ust
ry le
ader
s, b
usi
nes
s ex
ecu
tive
s, IS
D s
up
erin
ten
den
ts, e
con
om
ic a
nd
wo
rkfo
rce
dev
elo
pm
ent
lead
ers,
dir
ecto
rs o
f co
mm
un
ity
and
no
np
rofi
t o
rgan
izat
ion
s, e
lect
ed
off
icia
ls, h
igh
er e
du
cati
on
ad
min
istr
ato
rs, a
nd
oth
er s
take
ho
lder
s. F
ollo
win
g th
e re
gio
nal
mee
tin
gs, t
he
agen
cies
dev
elo
pe
d a
set
of
reco
mm
end
atio
ns
and
maj
or
init
iati
ves
to a
dd
ress
th
e G
ove
rno
r's
char
ges
and
su
bm
itte
d t
he
Tri-
Age
ncy
Rep
ort
to
th
e O
ffic
e o
f th
e G
ove
rno
r. S
taff
of
the
thre
e ag
enci
es
con
tin
ue
to m
eet
regu
larl
y. S
om
e in
itia
tive
s re
sult
ing
fro
m t
he
Tri-
age
ncy
wo
rk in
clu
de:
Inte
rnsh
ip C
hal
len
ge
The
Texa
s In
tern
ship
Ch
alle
nge
is a
sta
tew
ide
cam
pai
gn t
o in
crea
se a
nd
pro
mo
te in
tern
ship
s fo
r st
ud
en
ts in
Tex
as.
Lau
nch
ed in
Fe
bru
ary
20
17
by
Texa
s Tr
i-A
gen
cy P
artn
ers,
TW
C, T
EA, a
nd
TH
ECB
, th
e ca
mp
aign
ch
alle
nge
s in
du
stry
an
d e
mp
loye
r p
artn
ers
to o
ffer
mo
re p
aid
inte
rnsh
ips;
un
iver
siti
es a
nd
co
llege
s to
pro
mo
te t
he
cam
pai
gn a
nd
gra
nt
acad
emic
cre
dit
fo
r in
tern
ship
o
pp
ort
un
itie
s; a
nd
to
stu
de
nts
to
ap
ply
fo
r in
tern
ship
s. T
he
corn
ers
ton
e o
f th
e ca
mp
aign
is t
he
inte
rnsh
ip p
ort
al, T
exas
Inte
rnsh
ip C
hal
len
ge, a
fre
e w
eb
site
wh
ere
em
plo
yers
can
po
st
po
siti
on
s an
d s
tud
en
ts c
an a
pp
ly f
or
them
.
Op
erat
ion
Wel
com
e H
om
e TW
C is
par
tner
ing
wit
h t
he
Texa
s W
ork
forc
e So
luti
on
s n
etw
ork
to
ass
ist
rece
ntl
y se
par
ated
ser
vice
mem
ber
s w
ho
are
exp
erie
nci
ng
chal
len
ges
in t
ran
slat
ing
thei
r m
ilita
ry s
kills
into
civ
ilian
te
rms,
loca
tin
g em
plo
ymen
t, c
om
ple
tin
g tw
o-
to f
ou
r-ye
ar c
olle
ge p
rogr
ams
or
ob
tain
ing
the
app
rop
riat
e lic
en
sure
or
cert
ific
atio
ns
to c
om
pet
e in
th
e jo
b m
arke
t. U
p t
o $
4 m
illio
n o
f th
e Sk
ills
Dev
elo
pm
ent
Fun
d w
ill b
e m
ade
avai
lab
le t
o t
rain
ap
pro
xim
atel
y 2
,00
0 t
ran
siti
on
ing
serv
ice
mem
ber
s o
ver
two
yea
rs.
Trai
nin
g w
ill t
arge
t h
igh
-dem
and
occ
up
atio
ns
iden
tifi
ed
in t
he
loca
l b
oar
d's
tar
gete
d a
nd
hig
h-d
eman
d o
ccu
pat
ion
s lis
ts.
Ther
e w
ill b
e n
o c
ost
fo
r th
e tr
ain
ing
to t
he
serv
ice
mem
ber
or
the
mili
tary
. In
ad
dit
ion
, th
e M
ilita
ry F
amily
Su
pp
ort
pro
gram
pro
vid
es $
1
mill
ion
in g
ran
ts t
o f
un
d e
mp
loym
ent
assi
stan
ce f
or
mili
tary
sp
ou
ses
incl
ud
ing
enh
ance
d jo
b s
earc
h a
ssis
tan
ce, a
sses
smen
t o
f sk
ills,
lab
or
mar
ket
info
rmat
ion
, an
d r
esu
me
wri
tin
g an
d
inte
rvie
w s
kills
ass
ista
nce
.
Texa
s In
du
stry
Clu
ster
Inn
ova
tive
Aca
dem
y P
artn
ersh
ip D
emo
nst
rati
on
TW
C p
rovi
ded
$3
.2M
in p
artn
ersh
ip w
ith
TEA
an
d T
HEC
B f
or
the
Texa
s In
du
stry
Clu
ster
Inn
ova
tive
Aca
dem
y P
artn
ersh
ip D
emo
nst
rati
on
.
In a
dd
itio
n, T
WC
is w
ork
ing
wit
h t
he
Texa
s H
igh
er
Edu
cati
on
Co
ord
inat
ing
Bo
ard
re
gard
ing
arti
cula
tio
n p
artn
ersh
ips
bet
we
en t
wo
or
mo
re e
du
cati
on
al in
stit
uti
on
s d
ocu
men
tin
g tr
ansf
er
po
licie
s fo
r sp
ecif
ic a
cad
emic
pro
gram
s o
r d
egre
es, a
nd
allo
w r
egis
tere
d a
pp
ren
tice
ship
tra
inin
g p
rogr
ams
acro
ss t
he
stat
e to
be
reco
gniz
ed a
nd
gai
n c
olle
ge c
red
it a
nd
a p
ath
way
to
war
ds
an
asso
ciat
e's
deg
ree.
28
Age
ncy
Te
xas
Wo
rkfo
rce
Co
mm
issi
on
Go
al A
rea
2
– E
nga
ge in
Par
tner
ship
s
Stra
tegy
In
crea
se a
cce
ss t
o, r
efe
rral
be
twee
n, a
nd
ou
tco
me
s o
f ad
ult
ed
uca
tio
n p
rogr
ams
and
ser
vice
s.
Par
t 1
–Sta
tus
Up
dat
e f
or
Act
ion
s
Act
ual
[m
m/y
y]
Spec
ifie
d in
Pla
n
FY 2
01
7 S
tatu
s St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
Act
ion
St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
In p
rogr
ess
09
/15
En
han
ce c
olla
bo
rati
on
bet
wee
n f
eder
ally
fu
nd
ed a
du
lt e
du
cati
on
an
d li
tera
cy g
ran
tees
an
d
loca
l wo
rkfo
rce
bo
ard
s.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
9
In p
rogr
ess
09
/15
Im
pro
ve t
he
cap
acit
y o
f co
mm
un
ity-
bas
ed p
rovi
der
s n
ot
rece
ivin
g ad
ult
ed
uca
tio
n a
nd
lit
erac
y fu
nd
s to
pro
vid
e ad
ult
ed
uca
tio
n a
nd
lite
racy
ser
vice
s an
d t
o e
ffec
tive
ly c
oo
rdin
ate
serv
ices
wit
h f
eder
ally
fu
nd
ed a
du
lt e
du
cati
on
an
d li
tera
cy g
ran
tees
.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
7
In p
rogr
ess
09
/15
D
evel
op
an
d im
ple
men
t a
stu
den
t re
ferr
al s
yste
m b
etw
een
fed
eral
ly f
un
ded
ad
ult
ed
uca
tio
n a
nd
lite
racy
pro
vid
ers
and
co
mm
un
ity
an
d t
ech
nic
al c
olle
ges
to a
ssis
t in
div
idu
als
seek
ing
adu
lt e
du
cati
on
ser
vice
s fi
nd
a p
rogr
am r
esp
on
sive
to
th
eir
nee
ds.
If d
eem
ed
app
rop
riat
e, c
on
sid
er in
tegr
atio
n o
f co
mm
un
ity-
bas
ed p
rovi
der
s in
to t
he
refe
rral
sys
tem
. (R
efer
ral s
yste
m m
easu
re t
o b
e d
evel
op
ed p
rio
r to
imp
lem
en
tati
on
.)
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
9
Par
t 2
–FY
20
17
Ke
y A
ctiv
itie
s
Enh
ance
co
llab
ora
tio
n b
etw
een
fed
eral
ly-f
un
ded
AEL
gra
nte
es…
In 2
01
5, T
WC
co
nd
uct
ed 1
0 r
egio
nal
wo
rkfo
rce
and
ad
ult
ed
uca
tio
n in
tegr
atio
n m
eet
ings
. TW
C p
rovi
ded
$1
60
,00
0 t
o B
oar
ds
to f
urt
her
loca
l AEL
an
d w
ork
forc
e in
tegr
atio
n o
pp
ort
un
itie
s.
Bo
ard
s u
se t
he
stre
ngt
hs,
wea
knes
ses,
op
po
rtu
nit
ies
and
th
reat
s an
alys
is a
nd
so
luti
on
str
ateg
ies
dev
elo
ped
du
rin
g th
e 2
01
5 r
egi
on
al w
ork
forc
e an
d a
du
lt e
du
cati
on
inte
grat
ion
init
iati
ve
mee
tin
gs t
o le
ad p
olic
y an
d p
roce
du
ral e
nh
ance
me
nt
effo
rts,
th
at in
corp
ora
te in
tegr
atio
n o
f A
EL o
bje
ctiv
es in
to B
oar
d s
trat
eg
ic in
itia
tive
s, e
mp
loye
r en
gage
men
t an
d c
on
trac
tor
pro
ced
ure
s.
Thes
e co
llab
ora
tio
ns
are
furt
her
ref
lect
ed in
loca
l bo
ard
pla
ns.
In
Oct
ob
er a
nd
Dec
emb
er 2
01
6, T
WC
issu
ed lo
cal p
lan
nin
g gu
idan
ce t
o p
rovi
de
Bo
ard
s w
ith
info
rmat
ion
an
d g
uid
ance
on
th
e d
evel
op
me
nt
and
su
bm
issi
on
of
loca
l pla
ns.
Bo
ard
s w
ere
req
uir
ed t
o in
clu
de
a d
escr
ipti
on
of
ho
w t
hey
pla
nn
ed
to
co
ord
inat
e W
IOA
Tit
le I
wo
rkfo
rce
inve
stm
ent
acti
viti
es w
ith
ad
ult
ed
uca
tio
n
and
lite
racy
act
ivit
ies
un
der
WIO
A T
itle
II.
TWC
’s t
hre
e-m
emb
er C
om
mis
sio
n a
pp
rove
d t
he
Bo
ard
pla
ns
on
May
23
, 20
17
. Th
e p
lan
s w
her
e th
en r
evie
wed
an
d a
pp
rove
d b
y th
e TW
IC o
n J
un
e 9
, 2
01
7.
Each
of
the
pla
ns
wer
e su
bse
qu
entl
y ap
pro
ved
by
the
Go
vern
or
on
Ju
ne
30
, 20
17
.
The
Wo
rkfo
rce
Inn
ova
tio
n a
nd
Op
po
rtu
nit
y A
ct (
WIO
A)
pro
vid
es n
um
ero
us
colla
bo
rati
ve o
pp
ort
un
itie
s fo
r th
e Te
xas
Wo
rkfo
rce
Syst
em t
o h
elp
job
see
kers
sec
ure
em
plo
ymen
t, e
du
cati
on
, tr
ain
ing
and
su
pp
ort
se
rvic
es t
hat
alig
n w
ith
mar
ket-
dri
ven
fo
rces
. To
fac
ilita
te t
hes
e co
llab
ora
tio
ns,
TW
C h
ost
ed f
ou
r W
IOA
Reg
ion
al F
oru
ms
in O
cto
ber
20
16
to
hig
hlig
ht
som
e o
f th
e ke
y el
emen
ts o
f W
IOA
, an
d t
he
new
acc
ou
nta
bili
ty a
nd
per
form
ance
mea
sure
men
t sy
stem
.
Staf
f fr
om
acr
oss
ou
r Te
xas
Wo
rkfo
rce
Solu
tio
ns
par
tner
s, in
clu
din
g B
oar
ds
and
th
eir
serv
ice
pro
vid
ers,
AEL
pro
vid
ers
and
vo
cati
on
al r
ehab
ilita
tio
n s
taff
att
end
ed t
he
fo
llow
ing
sess
ion
s:
• W
IOA
’s im
pac
t o
n T
exas
Wo
rkfo
rce
Solu
tio
ns
par
tner
s, in
clu
din
g b
oar
d p
lan
s, r
efer
rals
an
d y
ou
th p
rogr
am c
han
ges
• W
IOA
an
d t
he
Vo
cati
on
al R
ehab
ilita
tio
n p
rogr
am•
AEL
Inte
grat
ed E
du
cati
on
an
d T
rain
ing
29
• P
erfo
rman
ce A
cco
un
tab
ility
in t
he
Wo
rld
of
WIO
A, i
ncl
ud
ing
ou
tco
mes
, tar
get
sett
ing
and
mea
sure
res
ult
s.
Trai
nin
g se
ssio
ns
loca
tio
ns
and
dat
es:
• D
alla
s: T
hu
rsd
ay, O
ct. 6
, 20
16
• Lu
bb
ock
: Fri
day
, Oct
. 7, 2
01
6•
Au
stin
: Th
urs
day
, Oct
. 13
, 20
16
• H
ou
sto
n: T
ues
day
, Oct
. 1
8, 2
01
6
Imp
rove
th
e ca
pac
ity
of
com
mu
nit
y-b
ase
d p
rovi
der
s n
ot
rece
ivin
g A
EL f
un
ds…
TWC
ap
pro
ved
ove
r $
50
0,0
00
fo
r a
com
pet
itiv
e gr
ant
solic
itat
ion
to
pro
vid
e p
rofe
ssio
nal
dev
elo
pm
ent
to t
uto
rs, i
nst
ruct
ors
, pro
gram
ad
min
istr
ativ
e st
aff,
an
d t
rain
ers
of
no
n-p
rofi
t ad
ult
lit
erac
y o
rgan
izat
ion
s in
Tex
as.
Pro
fess
ion
al d
evel
op
me
nt
serv
ices
incl
ud
e tr
ain
ing
on
lite
racy
vo
lun
teer
man
agem
ent,
wh
ich
may
incl
ud
e vo
lun
teer
rec
ruit
men
t, t
rain
ing,
pla
cem
en
t,
mo
nit
ori
ng,
an
d r
ete
nti
on
; lo
w li
tera
cy in
stru
ctio
n/t
uto
rin
g fo
r ei
ther
nat
ive
Engl
ish
or
no
n-n
ativ
e En
glis
h s
pea
kers
; d
eve
lop
ing
colla
bo
rati
ve p
artn
ersh
ips
that
ben
efi
t st
ud
ents
wit
h A
du
lt
Edu
cati
on
an
d L
iter
acy
gran
t re
cip
ien
ts, i
ncl
ud
ing
dat
a sh
arin
g re
lati
on
ship
s; a
nd
oth
er a
reas
bas
ed
on
th
e re
sult
s o
f th
e n
ee
ds
asse
ssm
ent
and
inp
ut
fro
m t
he
com
mit
tee.
Th
e gr
ante
e p
lan
ned
7 t
rain
ing
eve
nts
an
d e
stim
ated
85
0 t
o b
e se
rve
d.
Dev
elo
p a
nd
imp
lem
ent
a st
ud
ent
refe
rral
sys
tem
bet
wee
n f
eder
ally
fu
nd
ed A
EL p
rovi
de
rs a
nd
co
mm
un
ity
and
tec
hn
ical
co
llege
s…
TWC
has
ch
arge
d A
EL g
ran
tees
wit
h im
pro
vin
g co
nn
ecti
on
s w
ith
po
st-s
eco
nd
ary
op
po
rtu
nit
ies.
TW
C h
as e
stab
lish
ed
per
form
ance
exp
ecta
tio
ns
for
bo
th C
aree
r P
ath
way
s an
d In
tegr
ated
Ed
uca
tio
n a
nd
Tra
inin
g o
ffer
ings
. So
me
exam
ple
s o
f lo
cal i
nit
iati
ves,
incl
ud
e:
• In
th
e A
lam
o a
rea,
th
e R
egio
n 2
0 E
du
cati
on
al S
ervi
ce C
ente
r (E
SC)
AEL
co
nso
rtiu
m a
nd
th
e A
lam
o C
olle
ges
Aca
dem
ic S
ucc
ess
off
ice
crea
ted
a u
niv
ersa
l ref
erra
l fo
rm f
or
stu
de
nts
in
dev
elo
pm
en
tal e
du
cati
on
pro
gram
s w
ho
co
uld
ben
efit
at
no
-co
st f
rom
AEL
rem
edia
l ser
vice
s. A
lam
o C
olle
ges’
ad
viso
rs r
efer
stu
den
ts t
o t
he
Reg
ion
20
ESC
AEL
co
nso
rtiu
m in
wh
ich
stu
de
nts
re
ceiv
e ta
rget
ed
rem
ed
ial s
ervi
ces
inte
grat
ed
wit
h a
co
llege
kn
ow
led
ge c
urr
icu
lum
, at
no
co
st, s
up
po
rtin
g a
rap
id t
ran
siti
on
bac
k to
Ala
mo
Co
llege
s. S
yste
m p
artn
ers
are
curr
en
tly
dev
elo
pin
g a
join
t o
nlin
e u
niv
ers
al r
efer
ral f
orm
th
at a
ll ag
en
cies
can
use
to
ref
er c
ust
om
ers
to t
he
syst
em.
• A
mar
illo
Co
llege
, in
th
e Te
xas
Pan
han
dle
, ref
ers
inco
min
g co
llege
stu
den
ts w
ho
te
st lo
w o
n t
he
Texa
s Su
cces
s In
itia
tive
Ass
essm
ent
(TSI
A)
for
enro
llmen
t in
th
e n
o-c
ost
AEL
Co
llege
On
-R
amp
pro
gram
fro
m w
hic
h t
hey
ben
efit
by
colle
ge a
nd
res
ou
rce
inte
grat
ion
, wo
rkfo
rce
inte
grat
ion
, an
d d
igit
al li
tera
cy s
kills
fo
r th
ose
en
teri
ng
inte
grat
ed
ed
uca
tio
n a
nd
tra
inin
g. A
mo
ng
the
top
ics
cove
red
in t
ran
siti
on
cla
sses
are
car
eer
cou
nse
ling;
tim
e m
anag
eme
nt;
no
te-
and
tes
t-ta
kin
g sk
ills;
tea
m b
uild
ing;
TSI
A p
rep
arat
ion
; rap
id r
evie
w m
ath
, aca
de
mic
rea
din
g, a
nd
wri
tin
g,in
clu
din
g su
pp
ort
s fo
r En
glis
h la
ngu
age
lear
ner
s; d
atab
ase
rese
arch
; wo
rk-c
itin
g sk
ills;
mat
h la
b u
se; M
icro
soft
Wo
rd f
orm
atti
ng
for
Mo
der
n L
angu
age
Ass
oci
atio
n/A
mer
ican
Psy
cho
logi
cal
Ass
oci
atio
n s
tyle
s; o
nlin
e sy
stem
’s B
lack
bo
ard
use
; an
d f
inan
cial
aid
co
un
selin
g.
• In
th
e So
uth
east
Tex
as w
ork
forc
e ar
ea, t
he
Bo
ard
an
d A
EL p
rovi
de
r, R
egio
n 5
ESC
, hav
e d
eve
lop
ed jo
int
serv
ice
arra
nge
men
ts t
hat
incl
ud
e sh
are
d a
sse
ssm
en
ts, c
ross
-ref
erra
l op
tio
ns,
wo
rkfo
rce
trai
nin
g th
rou
gh W
IOA
Tit
le I
fun
ds,
tra
inin
g, c
ase
man
agem
ent,
ch
ild c
are,
tra
nsp
ort
atio
n a
ssis
tan
ce, w
ork
forc
e p
rep
arat
ion
act
ivit
ies,
an
d jo
b p
lace
men
t. T
o f
urt
her
pro
gram
inte
grat
ion
, th
e B
oar
d p
rovi
ded
Reg
ion
5 E
SC t
rain
ing
on
usi
ng
the
Texa
s W
ork
forc
e In
form
atio
n S
yste
m o
f Te
xas
and
th
e B
oar
d a
nd
Reg
ion
5 E
SC h
ave
a d
ata
shar
ing
agre
eme
nt
to f
acili
tate
re
ferr
als
and
co
-en
rollm
en
t. T
hro
ugh
a s
ep
arat
e d
iscr
etio
nar
y gr
ant
man
age
d b
y th
e B
oar
d, A
EL
stu
de
nts
rec
eiv
ed w
ork
forc
e tr
ain
ing
to p
rep
are
for
the
Ch
ild D
evel
op
men
t A
sso
ciat
e ce
rtif
icat
ion
.
• R
ura
l are
as a
re p
erh
aps
the
mo
st s
tret
che
d f
or
reso
urc
es.
Tw
o A
EL p
rovi
der
s—C
om
mu
nit
y A
ctio
n, I
nco
rpo
rate
d, a
nd
An
gelin
a C
olle
ge—
hav
e im
ple
men
ted
cro
ss-r
efe
rral
sys
tem
s ac
ross
ru
ral a
reas
in t
hei
r re
spec
tive
wo
rkfo
rce
area
s, W
ork
forc
e So
luti
on
s R
ura
l Cap
ital
Are
a an
d W
ork
forc
e So
luti
on
s D
eep
Eas
t Te
xas.
Cu
sto
mer
s w
ho
are
bas
ic-s
kills
def
icie
nt
par
tici
pat
e in
a
com
pre
hen
sive
se
rvic
e m
od
el t
hat
incl
ud
es u
tilit
y as
sist
ance
, wo
rkfo
rce
pre
par
atio
n a
ctiv
itie
s, c
hild
car
e, a
nd
fo
od
an
d t
ran
spo
rtat
ion
fo
r el
igib
le c
ust
om
ers.
30
Age
ncy
W
ind
ham
Sch
oo
l Dis
tric
t (T
exas
Dep
artm
ent
of
Cri
min
al J
ust
ice)
Go
al A
rea
2
– E
nga
ge in
Par
tner
ship
s
Stra
tegy
Es
tab
lish
an
d le
vera
ge r
egi
on
al e
mp
loye
r p
artn
ersh
ips
to b
enef
it s
tud
ents
pre
- an
d p
ost
-rel
ease
.
Par
t 1
–Sta
tus
Up
dat
e f
or
Act
ion
s
Act
ual
[m
m/y
y]
Spec
ifie
d in
Pla
n
FY 2
01
7 S
tatu
s St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
Act
ion
St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
D
evel
op
par
tner
ship
s w
ith
em
plo
yers
an
d im
ple
men
t p
re-e
mp
loym
ent
care
er a
nd
te
chn
ical
ed
uca
tio
n p
rogr
ams
to m
eet
ne
eds
of
em
plo
yers
fo
r p
ote
nti
al s
tud
ent
emp
loym
ent.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
9
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
Ex
pan
d o
pp
ort
un
itie
s fo
r o
ffe
nd
ers,
pre
- an
d p
ost
-rel
ease
, th
rou
gh c
aree
r ex
po
s an
d
reen
try
job
fai
rs t
o a
cce
ss s
erv
ice
pro
vid
ers
and
em
plo
yme
nt
in o
rder
to
ree
nte
r so
ciet
y su
cce
ssfu
lly.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
8
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
C
on
tin
ue
to p
rovi
de
acce
ss a
nd
dev
elo
p a
war
enes
s o
f em
plo
ymen
t o
pp
ort
un
itie
s, s
ervi
ce
pro
vid
ers,
an
d e
mp
loye
r su
rvey
s o
n t
he
Win
dh
am S
cho
ol D
istr
ict
web
site
. FY
20
16
FY
20
19
No
t st
arte
d
10
/17
Es
tab
lish
se
mi-
ann
ual
em
plo
yer
surv
ey o
n p
re-e
mp
loym
ent
care
er a
nd
tec
hn
ical
ed
uca
tio
n a
ctiv
itie
s an
d h
irin
g ex
per
ien
ces.
FY
20
16
FY
20
19
Par
t 2
–FY
20
17
Ke
y A
ctiv
itie
s
WSD
has
par
tner
ed w
ith
co
mp
anie
s in
SY
17
res
ult
ing
in C
TE d
epar
tmen
t cu
rric
ulu
m c
han
ges
to e
nh
ance
stu
den
t em
plo
yab
ility
ski
lls.
For
SY 1
7 W
SD h
ost
ed
eig
ht
care
er e
xpo
s in
th
e st
ate
jail
and
inst
itu
tio
nal
div
isio
n f
acili
ties
an
d W
SD w
as r
epre
sen
ted
at
six
po
st r
elea
se jo
b f
airs
fo
r o
ffen
der
s.
WSD
dis
trib
ute
s in
form
atio
n c
ard
s to
off
end
ers,
th
eir
fam
ilies
an
d t
o o
ur
par
tner
ship
co
mp
anie
s d
uri
ng
grad
uat
ion
s, c
aree
r e
xpo
s an
d jo
b f
airs
. W
e al
so h
ave
the
job
view
kio
sk lo
cate
d in
se
ven
sta
te ja
il fa
cilit
ies
. W
SD t
each
ers
inst
ruct
th
e st
ud
ents
on
ho
w t
o s
earc
h f
or
job
s o
fflin
e u
sin
g ke
y w
ord
s, p
er W
SD c
urr
icu
lum
. Th
e jo
bvi
ew k
iosk
lin
k is
als
o lo
cate
d o
n t
he
WSD
web
site
. Th
e co
mb
ined
nu
mb
er o
f w
ebsi
te a
nd
kio
sk v
iew
s fo
r SY
17
is 4
1,4
91.
09
/01
/17
Dev
elo
pe
d c
om
pan
ies
wit
h p
artn
ersh
ip in
SY
17
an
d w
ill d
evel
op
su
rvey
fo
r em
plo
yers
to
fill
ou
t su
rvey
.
Sch
edu
led
sta
rt o
f ac
tio
n it
em 4
was
del
ayed
du
e to
an
em
ph
asis
on
dev
elo
pin
g p
artn
ersh
ips
wit
h c
om
pan
ies.
31
Goa
l Are
a 3:
Align System Elements
Wha
t are th
e ob
jectives?
How
are sy
stem
partners a
ddressing them
? Wha
t was accom
plishe
d this yea
r?
Improve and enhance services,
program
s, and policies to facilitate
effective and efficient transitions.
TEA and THEC
B are developing and im
plemen
ting
program
s of study in community and technical colleges
and aligning them
with secondary program
s of study.
20.42 percent of grade 12 secondary studen
ts who
received
career and technical education dual credit
enrolled in
and received credit at a tw
o‐year
institution (TEA)
Excess sem
ester credit hours for career and
technical education tim
e to degree (THEC
B)
25 hours – Certificate Level 1
36 hours – Certificate Level 2
30 hours – Associate’s degree
TWC is enhancing transition services for studen
ts and
youth with disabilities to competitive integrated
em
ploym
ent or to postsecondary ed
ucation and
training followed
by competitive integrated
em
ploym
ent.
Of studen
ts and youth with disabilities who
participated
in transition services:
18.56 percent subsequen
tly en
rolled in
postsecondary ed
ucation and training
59.33 percent subsequen
tly en
tered
competitive integrated
employm
ent
Develop and im
plemen
t policies and
processes to ensure portable and
transferrable credit and creden
tials.
THEC
B is working to ensure consisten
t cred
it transfer
based
on program
s of study and common technical core
curriculum.
65.50 percent of community and technical college
studen
ts who received program
‐of‐study‐based
course cred
it transferred to another two‐year
institution and had
that credit recognized
TJJD is expanding career and technical education
courses to provide additional opportunities for dual
cred
it.
Data reporting for tw
o m
easures began
this year:
7.14 percen
t of career and technical education
program
s approved for dual credit
3.11 percen
t of studen
ts successfully
completing dual credit career and technical
education courses
By im
proving transitions, aligning program
s, and ensuring portability and transferability, Texas im
proves access and the ability of all participants to complete
program
s of study, earn creden
tials, transition to further education, and gain critical employability skills. Texas employers are better positioned
to find and
hire the em
ployees they need through
an enhanced education and training pipeline.
32
Align System Elements: Action Plan Implementation Summaries
By improving transitions, aligning programs, and ensuring portability and transferability, Texas improves access and the ability of all students to complete programs of study, earn credentials, transition to further education, and gain critical employability skills. Through the implementation of a common technical core curriculum that is recognized statewide, programs of study can enhance delivery efficiency, dual‐credit effectiveness, and improve student outcomes and transitions. Texas employers are better positioned to find and hire the employees they need through an enhanced education and training pipeline.
Four agencies are focused on aligning policies, processes, services, and programs to more effectively serve workforce system participants and facilitate system outcomes.
The following pages include action plan reports from each of the partner agencies. Please note that the reports contain information verbatim as submitted by the agencies.
System Partner Strategy Agency System Objective System Goal
Develop and implement programs of study in community and technical colleges and align with secondary programs of study.
TEA THECB
Improve and enhance services, programs, and policies to facilitate effective and efficient transitions.
Align system elements
Enhance transition services for students and youth with disabilities to competitive integrated employment or to postsecondary education and training followed by competitive integrated employment.
TWC
Ensure consistent credit transfer based on programs of study and common technical core curriculum.
THECB Develop and implement policies and processes to ensure portable and transferrable credit and credentials.
Expand career and technical education courses to provide additional opportunities for dual credit.
TJJD
33
Age
ncy
Te
xas
Edu
cati
on
Age
ncy
Go
al A
rea
3
– A
lign
Sys
tem
Ele
men
ts
Stra
tegy
D
evel
op
an
d im
ple
men
t p
rogr
ams
of
stu
dy
in c
om
mu
nit
y an
d t
ech
nic
al c
olle
ges
and
alig
n w
ith
se
con
dar
y p
rogr
ams
of
stu
dy.
Par
t 1
–Sta
tus
Up
dat
e f
or
Act
ion
s
Act
ual
[m
m/y
y]
Spec
ifie
d in
Pla
n
FY 2
01
7 S
tatu
s St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
Act
ion
St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
C
olla
bo
rate
wit
h t
he
Texa
s H
igh
er E
du
cati
on
Co
ord
inat
ing
Bo
ard
to
dev
elo
p a
nd
im
ple
men
t p
rogr
ams
of
stu
dy
to f
acili
tate
sec
on
dar
y to
po
stse
con
dar
y st
ud
ent
tran
siti
on
. O
ngo
ing
FY 2
01
9
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
A
lign
se
con
dar
y an
d p
ost
seco
nd
ary
pro
gram
s o
f st
ud
y sy
ste
ms
by
wo
rkin
g w
ith
th
e Te
xas
Hig
her
Ed
uca
tio
n C
oo
rdin
atin
g B
oar
d.
On
goin
g FY
20
19
No
t st
arte
d
09
/17
C
olla
bo
rate
wit
h t
he
Texa
s H
igh
er E
du
cati
on
Co
ord
inat
ing
Bo
ard
to
dev
elo
p a
nd
ad
op
t p
olic
ies
and
pro
ced
ure
s th
at f
acili
tate
co
nsi
sten
t cr
edit
tra
nsf
er
fro
m s
eco
nd
ary
to
po
stse
con
dar
y-b
ased
pro
gram
s o
f st
ud
y.
On
goin
g FY
20
19
In p
rogr
ess
09
/17
En
han
ce p
rogr
ams
of
stu
dy
by
incl
ud
ing
stat
ewid
e-a
rtic
ula
ted
, Ad
van
ced
Tec
hn
ical
C
red
it, a
nd
Wo
rkfo
rce
Edu
cati
on
Co
urs
e M
anu
al c
ou
rse
s.
On
goin
g FY
20
19
In p
rogr
ess
09
/17
P
rovi
de
trai
nin
g to
se
con
dar
y ad
min
istr
ato
rs, c
ou
nse
lors
, an
d t
each
ers
in t
he
pro
per
use
o
f p
rogr
ams
of
stu
dy.
O
ngo
ing
FY 2
01
9
Sub
stan
tial
ly c
om
ple
te
09
/16
0
8/1
7
Co
llab
ora
te w
ith
rel
evan
t st
ate
agen
cies
to
alig
n p
olic
ies
rela
ted
to
wo
rkfo
rce
edu
cati
on
. O
ngo
ing
FY 2
01
9
Par
t 2
–FY
20
17
Ke
y A
ctiv
itie
s
-Ad
viso
ry c
om
mit
tees
hav
e b
een
dev
elo
ped
fo
r th
e H
ealt
h S
cien
ce a
nd
Arc
hit
ectu
re a
nd
Co
nst
ruct
ion
car
eer
clu
ster
s. T
hes
e co
mm
itte
es a
re c
om
po
sed
of
facu
lty
fro
m s
eco
nd
ary,
po
st-
seco
nd
ary,
an
d r
epre
sen
tati
ves
fro
m b
usi
nes
s an
d in
du
stry
. As
the
com
mit
tees
co
nti
nu
e to
wo
rk t
o d
evel
op
pro
gram
s o
f st
ud
y th
ey w
ill b
e as
ked
to
iden
tify
key
ind
ust
ry c
erti
fica
tio
ns
as
app
rop
riat
e.-A
n a
dvi
sory
co
mm
itte
e has
bee
n n
amed
to
man
age
the
WEC
M c
ou
rse
revi
ew p
roce
ss. T
he
com
mit
tee
has
met
on
ce a
nd
is in
th
e p
roce
ss o
f d
evel
op
ing
its
wo
rk p
lan
fo
r re
view
ing
the
cou
rse
inve
nto
ry.
-TH
ECB
will
be
con
tact
ed t
o b
egin
co
llab
ora
tio
n f
or
ado
pti
ng
po
licie
s an
d p
roce
du
res
rega
rdin
g cr
edit
tra
nsf
er o
n p
rogr
ams
of
stu
dy.
-Tra
inin
g w
ill b
e p
rovi
ded
du
rin
g Le
ader
ship
Aca
dem
y. C
on
sid
erin
g th
e ad
dit
ion
of
a sl
ide
sho
w w
ith
au
dio
to
th
e Te
xas
CTE
Res
ou
rce
Cen
ter.
-Go
vern
or'
s Tr
i-A
gen
cy g
rou
p is
wo
rkin
g o
n w
ork
forc
e ed
uca
tio
n.
34
Age
ncy
Te
xas
Hig
her
Ed
uca
tio
n C
oo
rdin
atin
g B
oar
d
Go
al A
rea
3
– A
lign
Sys
tem
Ele
men
ts
Stra
tegy
D
evel
op
an
d im
ple
men
t p
rogr
ams
of
stu
dy
in c
om
mu
nit
y an
d t
ech
nic
al c
olle
ges
and
alig
n w
ith
se
con
dar
y p
rogr
ams
of
stu
dy.
Par
t 1
–Sta
tus
Up
dat
e f
or
Act
ion
s
Act
ual
[m
m/y
y]
Spec
ifie
d in
Pla
n
FY 2
01
7 S
tatu
s St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
Act
ion
St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
D
evel
op
an
d a
do
pt
pro
gram
s o
f st
ud
y th
at p
rovi
de
a co
ord
inat
ed n
on
-du
plic
ativ
e se
qu
ence
o
f se
con
dar
y an
d p
ost
seco
nd
ary
acad
emic
an
d c
aree
r an
d t
ech
nic
al e
du
cati
on
co
urs
es
des
ign
ed t
o h
elp
stu
den
ts t
ran
siti
on
sea
mle
ssly
fro
m h
igh
sch
oo
l to
a p
ub
lic c
om
mu
nit
y o
r te
chn
ical
co
llege
.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
9
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
Ex
pan
d a
nd
su
pp
ort
pro
gram
of
stu
dy
init
iati
ves
and
ad
op
tio
n r
ate
of
a co
mm
on
gro
up
of
Wo
rkfo
rce
Edu
cati
on
Co
urs
e M
anu
al c
ou
rse
s p
er d
isci
plin
e.
FY 2
01
7
FY 2
01
7
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
A
lign
se
con
dar
y an
d p
ost
seco
nd
ary
pro
gram
s o
f st
ud
y sy
ste
ms
by
wo
rkin
g w
ith
th
e Te
xas
Edu
cati
on
Age
ncy
. FY
20
18
FY
20
19
No
t st
arte
d
09
/18
Fa
cilit
ate
con
sist
ent
cred
it t
ran
sfer
fro
m s
eco
nd
ary
to p
ost
seco
nd
ary
bas
ed o
n p
rogr
ams
of
stu
dy
by
wo
rkin
g w
ith
th
e Te
xas
Edu
cati
on
Age
ncy
to
dev
elo
p a
nd
ad
op
t re
leva
nt
po
licie
s,
pro
ced
ure
s, a
nd
ru
les.
On
goin
g FY
20
19
Par
t 2
–FY
20
17
Ke
y A
ctiv
itie
s
Ad
viso
ry c
om
mit
tees
hav
e b
een
dev
elo
ped
fo
r th
e H
ealt
h S
cien
ce a
nd
Arc
hit
ectu
re a
nd
Co
nst
ruct
ion
car
eer
clu
ster
s. T
hes
e co
mm
itte
es a
re c
om
po
sed
of
facu
lty
fro
m s
eco
nd
ary,
po
st-
seco
nd
ary,
an
d r
epre
sen
tati
ves
fro
m b
usi
nes
s an
d in
du
stry
. As
the
com
mit
tees
co
nti
nu
e to
wo
rk t
o d
evel
op
pro
gram
s o
f st
ud
y th
ey w
ill b
e as
ked
to
iden
tify
key
ind
ust
ry c
erti
fica
tio
ns
as
app
rop
riat
e.
An
ad
viso
ry c
om
mit
tee has
bee
n n
amed
to
man
age
the
WEC
M c
ou
rse
revi
ew p
roce
ss. T
he
com
mit
tee
has
met
on
ce a
nd
is in
th
e p
roce
ss o
f d
evel
op
ing
its
wo
rk p
lan
fo
r re
view
ing
the
cou
rse
inve
nto
ry.
35
Age
ncy
Te
xas
Hig
her
Ed
uca
tio
n C
oo
rdin
atin
g B
oar
d
Go
al A
rea
3
– A
lign
Sys
tem
Ele
men
ts
Stra
tegy
En
sure
co
nsi
sten
t cr
edit
tra
nsf
er b
ased
on
pro
gram
s o
f st
ud
y an
d c
om
mo
n t
ech
nic
al c
ore
cu
rric
ulu
m.
Par
t 1
–Sta
tus
Up
dat
e f
or
Act
ion
s
Act
ual
[m
m/y
y]
Spec
ifie
d in
Pla
n
FY 2
01
7 S
tatu
s St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
Act
ion
St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
So
licit
inp
ut
fro
m b
usi
ne
ss a
nd
ind
ust
ry in
th
e id
enti
fica
tio
n o
f es
sen
tial
kn
ow
led
ge, s
kills
, an
d a
bili
ties
req
uir
ed f
or
each
pro
gram
of
stu
dy.
O
ngo
ing
FY 2
01
9
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
C
on
du
ct d
isci
plin
e-s
pe
cifi
c w
ork
sho
ps
wit
h f
acu
lty
to id
enti
fy c
om
mo
n p
rogr
am-l
eve
l le
arn
ing
ou
tco
me
s an
d c
om
mo
n s
equ
ence
s o
f co
urs
es.
FY
20
16
FY
20
19
No
t st
arte
d
09
/18
P
ub
lish
sta
tew
ide
pro
gram
s o
f st
ud
y o
n t
he
Texa
s H
igh
er E
du
cati
on
Co
ord
inat
ing
Bo
ard
’s
web
site
s, d
istr
ibu
te w
idel
y to
oth
er s
tate
age
nci
es, a
nd
lin
k to
oth
er c
aree
r an
d t
ech
nic
al
edu
cati
on
an
d w
ork
forc
e ac
tivi
tie
s.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
9
No
t st
arte
d
09
/18
R
evis
e ex
isti
ng
rule
s, p
olic
ies,
an
d p
roto
cols
to
incl
ud
e ad
op
tio
n o
f p
rogr
ams
of
stu
dy.
FY
20
16
FY
20
16
No
t st
arte
d
09
/18
R
edu
ce n
um
ber
of
Wo
rkfo
rce
Ed
uca
tio
n C
ou
rse
Man
ual
co
urs
es o
ffer
ed a
t o
nly
on
e o
r tw
o c
olle
ges.
FY
20
18
FY
20
19
Par
t 2
–FY
20
17
Ke
y A
ctiv
itie
s
Pro
gram
of
Stu
dy
Ad
viso
ry C
om
mit
tees
hav
e b
egu
n t
he
wo
rk r
elat
ed t
o t
he
dev
elo
pm
ent
of
Pro
gram
s o
f St
ud
y. N
o P
rogr
ams
of
Stu
dy
hav
e b
een
fu
lly d
evel
op
ed a
nd
ap
pro
ved
by
the
Co
ord
inat
ing
Bo
ard
. On
ce t
hey
are
ap
pro
ved
th
ey w
ill b
e p
ost
ed o
n t
he
web
site
an
d in
form
atio
n w
ill b
e d
istr
ibu
ted
to
th
e tw
o-y
ear
colle
ge s
ecto
r.
36
Age
ncy
Te
xas
Juve
nile
Ju
stic
e D
epar
tmen
t
Go
al A
rea
3
– A
lign
Sys
tem
Ele
men
ts
Stra
tegy
Ex
pan
d c
aree
r an
d t
ech
nic
al e
du
cati
on
co
urs
es t
o p
rovi
de
add
itio
nal
op
po
rtu
nit
ies
for
du
al c
red
it.
Par
t 1
–Sta
tus
Up
dat
e f
or
Act
ion
s
Act
ual
[m
m/y
y]
Spec
ifie
d in
Pla
n
FY 2
01
7 S
tatu
s St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
Act
ion
St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
Fin
aliz
ed
04
/16
0
5/1
6
Co
nta
ct lo
cal c
om
mu
nit
y co
llege
s an
d t
ech
nic
al s
cho
ols
to
bro
ker
wo
rkin
g re
lati
on
ship
s an
d b
egin
dis
cuss
ion
s re
gard
ing
du
al c
red
it o
pp
ort
un
itie
s.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
6
Fin
aliz
ed
05
/16
0
6/1
6
Mee
t w
ith
co
mm
un
ity
colle
ge a
nd
tec
hn
ical
sch
oo
l rep
rese
nta
tive
s to
ou
tlin
e re
qu
irem
ents
ne
eded
to
ass
ess
du
al c
red
it o
pp
ort
un
itie
s.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
6
Fin
aliz
ed
06
/16
0
6/1
6
Gat
her
an
d p
rovi
de
teac
her
cre
den
tial
an
d o
ther
info
rmat
ion
an
d m
ater
ial r
equ
est.
FY
20
16
FY
20
16
Fin
aliz
ed
05
/16
0
7/1
6
Co
ord
inat
e an
d h
ost
mee
tin
gs b
etw
een
inst
ruct
ors
of
elig
ible
car
eer
and
tec
hn
ical
ed
uca
tio
n p
rogr
ams
and
co
llege
or
tech
nic
al s
cho
ol r
epre
sen
tati
ves
to a
dd
ress
cu
rric
ulu
m
and
dat
a re
po
rtin
g.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
6
Fin
aliz
ed
08
/16
0
9/1
6
Imp
lem
ent
du
al c
red
it c
ou
rse
s fo
r el
igib
le s
tud
ents
. Ti
mel
ine
: up
on
co
mp
leti
on
of
inst
ruct
or
accr
edit
atio
n b
y th
e C
om
mis
sio
n o
n C
olle
ges
of
the
Sou
ther
n
Ass
oci
atio
n o
f C
olle
ges
and
Sch
oo
ls.
Par
t 2
–FY
20
17
Ke
y A
ctiv
itie
s
Cu
rren
tly
thre
e TJ
JD S
cho
ols
off
er d
ual
cre
dit
in t
he
ir w
eld
ing
cou
rses
.
37
Age
ncy
Te
xas
Wo
rkfo
rce
Co
mm
issi
on
Go
al A
rea
3
– A
lign
Sys
tem
Ele
men
ts
Stra
tegy
En
han
ce t
ran
siti
on
ser
vice
s fo
r st
ud
ents
an
d y
ou
th w
ith
dis
abili
ties
to
co
mp
etit
ive
inte
grat
ed e
mp
loym
ent
or
to p
ost
seco
nd
ary
ed
uca
tio
n a
nd
tr
ain
ing
follo
wed
by
com
pet
itiv
e in
tegr
ated
em
plo
ymen
t.
Par
t 1
–Sta
tus
Up
dat
e f
or
Act
ion
s
Act
ual
[m
m/y
y]
Spec
ifie
d in
Pla
n
FY 2
01
7 S
tatu
s St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
Act
ion
St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
Ev
alu
ate,
iden
tify
, an
d im
ple
men
t re
visi
on
s to
vo
cati
on
al r
ehab
ilita
tio
n p
rogr
am p
olic
y,
pro
ced
ure
s, a
nd
sta
ffin
g st
rate
gie
s to
imp
rove
co
nsi
sten
cy a
nd
eff
ecti
ven
ess
in t
he
del
iver
y o
f tr
ansi
tio
n s
ervi
ces
for
stu
den
ts a
nd
yo
uth
wit
h d
isab
iliti
es.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
6
In p
rogr
ess
09
/15
D
evel
op
an
d d
eplo
y a
core
gro
up
of
sub
ject
mat
ter
exp
erts
to
ass
ist
in im
ple
men
tati
on
of
pro
gram
imp
rove
men
ts in
tra
nsi
tio
n s
ervi
ces,
incl
ud
ing
the
dev
elo
pm
ent
and
co
ord
inat
ion
o
f tr
ain
ing
and
gu
idan
ce t
o in
crea
se s
taff
cap
acit
y to
ass
ist
stu
den
ts a
nd
yo
uth
wit
h
dis
abili
tie
s.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
7
In p
rogr
ess
09
/15
C
olla
bo
rate
wit
h o
ther
sta
tes,
pro
vid
ers,
an
d s
yste
m p
artn
ers
to
dev
elo
p p
olic
y, c
urr
icu
lum
, re
sou
rces
, an
d s
taff
cap
acit
y to
en
han
ce p
rovi
sio
n o
f tr
ansi
tio
n s
ervi
ces
for
stu
den
ts a
nd
yo
uth
wit
h d
isab
iliti
es. [
Tran
siti
on
ser
vice
s in
clu
de
bu
t ar
e n
ot
limit
ed t
o c
are
er e
xplo
rati
on
, w
ork
-bas
ed le
arn
ing
exp
erie
nce
s, c
ou
nse
ling
on
op
po
rtu
nit
ies
for
po
stse
con
dar
y ed
uca
tio
n
and
tra
inin
g, jo
b r
ead
ines
s sk
ills
trai
nin
g, a
nd
sel
f-ad
voca
cy in
stru
ctio
n.]
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
9
Par
t 2
–FY
20
17
Ke
y A
ctiv
itie
s
Eval
uat
e, id
enti
fy, a
nd
imp
lem
en
t re
visi
on
s to
vo
cati
on
al r
ehab
ilita
tio
n p
rogr
am p
olic
y…
TWC
VR
po
licie
s p
erta
inin
g to
tra
nsi
tio
n s
ervi
ces
for
stu
den
ts w
ith
dis
abili
ties
hav
e b
een
rev
ised
in F
Y 2
01
7 t
o r
efle
ct t
he
chan
ges
con
tain
ed w
ith
in t
he
fin
al r
egu
lati
on
s fo
r W
IOA
an
d t
o
pro
vid
e ad
dit
ion
al g
uid
ance
to
sta
ff r
egar
din
g se
rvic
es t
o s
tud
en
ts.
In A
ugu
st 2
01
7, T
WC
issu
ed a
rev
ised
an
d e
xpan
de
d G
uid
an
ce M
emo
ran
du
m t
o V
R s
taff
to
pro
vid
e gu
idan
ce o
n t
he
po
licy
chan
ges
as w
ell a
s ac
com
pan
yin
g ch
ange
s in
pro
ced
ure
s. In
FY
20
17
TW
C a
lso
cre
ated
th
e st
ruct
ure
fo
r th
e co
mb
ined
VR
Div
isio
n, a
s re
qu
ired
by
Sen
ate
Bill
20
8 (
84
th T
exas
Leg
isla
ture
). T
he
com
bin
ed s
tru
ctu
re w
ill b
e ef
fect
ive
on
Oct
ob
er 1
, 20
17
an
d in
clu
des
th
e re
dis
trib
uti
on
an
d c
lass
ific
atio
n o
f 2
7 v
acan
t p
osi
tio
ns
as T
ran
siti
on
Vo
cati
on
al R
ehab
ilita
tio
n C
ou
nse
lor
po
siti
on
s.
This
sta
ffin
g st
rate
gy w
ill in
crea
se t
he
nu
mb
er o
f V
R c
ou
nse
lors
fo
cusi
ng
excl
usi
vely
on
ser
vin
g st
ud
ents
wit
h d
isab
iliti
es.
At
the
stat
e le
vel,
in D
ecem
ber
20
16
TW
C V
R c
reat
ed a
fo
ur-
mem
ber
te
am o
f st
atew
ide
tran
siti
on
pro
gram
sp
ecia
lists
to
fo
cus
exc
lusi
vely
on
po
licy,
tec
hn
ical
ass
ista
nce
, fie
ld c
on
sult
atio
n, a
nd
str
ateg
y d
evel
op
me
nt
for
serv
ice
s to
stu
den
ts a
nd
yo
uth
.
Dev
leo
p a
nd
de
plo
y a
core
gro
up
of
sub
ject
mat
ter
exp
erts
to
ass
ist
in im
ple
me
nta
tio
n o
f p
rogr
am im
pro
vem
ents
…
The
stat
e o
ffic
e te
am o
f tr
ansi
tio
n p
rogr
am s
pec
ialis
ts, a
lon
g w
ith
th
e re
gio
nal
tra
nsi
tio
n t
eam
s co
mp
rise
d o
f th
e re
gio
nal
tra
nsi
tio
n p
rogr
am s
pec
ialis
t an
d t
ran
siti
on
co
un
selo
rs, c
on
stit
ute
th
e co
re g
rou
p o
f su
bje
ct m
atte
r ex
per
ts e
nvi
sio
ned
by
this
act
ion
pla
n.
Th
e te
am is
act
ive
ly w
ork
ing
to s
up
po
rt im
pro
vem
ents
to
ser
vice
s fo
r st
ud
en
ts w
ith
dis
abili
tie
s. I
n S
epte
mb
er
and
Oct
ob
er
of
20
16
, th
e le
ad S
tate
Pro
gram
Sp
ecia
list
for
Tran
siti
on
met
wit
h t
he
tran
siti
on
tea
ms
in e
ach
reg
ion
to
co
nd
uct
tra
inin
g an
d a
co
llab
ora
tive
wo
rk s
essi
on
on
th
e re
gula
tio
ns
and
po
licy
38
The
Tex
as
Wo
rkfo
rce
Syst
em S
tra
teg
ic P
lan
FY
201
6–F
Y 2
023
: A
ctio
n P
lan
Re
po
rts
for
Eva
lua
tio
n 2
017
gu
idan
ce is
sue
d b
y th
e R
ehab
ilita
tio
n S
ervi
ces
Ad
min
istr
atio
n (
RSA
) o
n W
IOA
Pre
-Em
plo
ymen
t Tr
ansi
tio
n S
ervi
ces.
In
FY
20
17
th
e le
ad S
tate
Pro
gram
Sp
ecia
list
for
Tran
siti
on
att
end
ed
mee
tin
gs o
f tr
ansi
tio
n c
ou
nse
lors
in f
ou
r o
f th
e si
x re
gio
ns
to p
rovi
de
guid
ance
an
d s
har
e in
form
atio
n.
Tran
siti
on
Str
ateg
ies
Trai
nin
g w
as d
evel
op
ed
in t
he
fall
of
20
16
an
d t
hre
e gr
ou
ps
wer
e tr
ain
ed
in t
he
spri
ng
of
20
16
, to
talli
ng
alm
ost
hal
f o
f th
e sc
ho
ol-
assi
gned
co
un
selo
rs in
th
e R
eh
abili
tati
on
Ser
vice
s D
ivis
ion
. Th
e co
re g
rou
p c
on
tin
ues
to
co
llab
ora
te t
o p
rovi
de
assi
stan
ce a
nd
co
nsu
ltat
ion
re
gard
ing
the
late
st g
uid
ance
on
Pre
-ETS
an
d o
the
r tr
ansi
tio
n s
trat
egie
s. I
n a
dd
itio
n t
o t
he
core
gro
up
, eac
h w
eek
a le
ader
ship
tea
m c
om
pri
sed
of
the
VR
Op
erat
ion
s D
irec
tor,
a
Reg
ion
al D
irec
tor,
sta
tew
ide
tran
siti
on
pro
gram
sp
ecia
lists
, a p
rogr
am m
anag
er, a
nd
oth
er p
rogr
am s
pec
ialis
ts, m
eets
by
con
fere
nce
cal
l to
ad
dre
ss q
ues
tio
ns
fro
m t
he
fiel
d a
nd
iden
tify
o
pp
ort
un
itie
s to
imp
rove
ser
vice
s.
Co
llab
ora
te w
ith
oth
er s
tate
s, p
rovi
der
s, a
nd
sys
tem
par
tner
s to
dev
elo
p p
olic
y…
TWC
VR
sta
ff c
oo
rdin
ates
wit
h E
du
cati
on
Ser
vice
Cen
ters
to
dev
elo
p g
rou
p s
kills
tra
inin
g o
pp
ort
un
itie
s fo
r b
lind
an
d v
isu
ally
imp
aire
d s
tud
ents
. In
ad
dit
ion
TW
C V
R s
taff
are
act
ivel
y p
arti
cip
atin
g in
tra
inin
g ev
ents
an
d c
on
fere
nce
s co
nd
uct
ed
by
TWC
an
d s
tate
tra
nsi
tio
n a
sso
ciat
ion
s, s
uch
as
the
Texa
s A
sso
ciat
ion
of
Vo
cati
on
al A
dju
stm
ent
Co
un
selo
rs (
TAV
AC
), t
o p
rovi
de
trai
nin
g an
d c
apac
ity
bu
ildin
g fo
r st
aff
rega
rdin
g th
e p
rovi
sio
n o
f tr
ansi
tio
n s
ervi
ces
to s
tud
ents
an
d y
ou
th w
ith
dis
ablit
ies.
In
FY
20
17
, TW
C V
R a
lso
co
nd
uct
ed a
n o
pen
en
rollm
ent
solic
itat
ion
to
exp
and
th
e n
um
ber
of
Co
mm
un
ity
Reh
abili
tati
on
Pro
gram
s (C
RP
s) o
ffer
ing
Pre
-ETS
ser
vice
s to
stu
de
nts
wit
h d
isab
iliti
es.
TWC
an
tici
pat
es t
hat
it w
ill e
nte
r in
to p
rovi
der
co
ntr
acts
wit
h a
t le
ast
40
CR
Ps
to p
rovi
de
add
itio
nal
ser
vice
s to
stu
den
ts.
The
stat
e o
ffic
e tr
ansi
tio
n t
eam
reg
ula
rly
par
ticp
ates
in m
eeti
ngs
of
the
Co
un
cil o
f St
ate
Ad
min
istr
ato
rs o
f V
oca
tio
nal
Reh
abili
tati
on
(C
SAV
R)
Tran
siti
on
Co
mm
itte
e, a
s w
ell a
s ca
lls le
d b
y o
ther
st
ates
to
co
llab
ora
te o
n t
ran
siti
on
ser
vice
s st
rate
gie
s. T
he
pu
rpo
se o
f th
ese
calls
is t
o s
har
e ch
alle
nge
s, b
est
pra
ctic
es,
idea
s fo
r im
ple
men
tin
g tr
ansi
tio
n s
ervi
ces,
an
d s
ucc
essf
ul s
trat
egie
s fo
r im
ple
me
nti
ng
Pre
-ETS
acr
oss
th
e co
un
try.
Th
e TW
C s
tate
off
ice
tran
siti
on
an
d le
ader
ship
tea
ms
hav
e al
so c
on
sult
ed
wit
h t
he
RSA
-fu
nd
ed
nat
ion
al W
ork
forc
e In
no
vati
on
Net
wo
rk T
ech
nic
al
Ass
ista
nce
Ce
nte
r (W
INTA
C)
to id
enti
fy p
rom
isin
g st
rate
gies
in o
ther
sta
tes
and
to
see
k cl
arif
icat
ion
on
th
e fi
nal
WIO
A r
egu
lati
on
s fo
r P
re-E
TS.
TWC
has
tw
ice
invi
ted
WIN
TAC
to
co
me
to T
exas
to
pro
vid
e tr
ain
ing
and
a n
atio
nal
per
spec
tive
on
Pre
-ETS
, in
clu
din
g th
e al
l man
ager
s m
eeti
ng
in J
uly
20
16
an
d a
Po
st-F
oru
m t
rain
ing
sess
ion
fo
r a
cro
ssec
tio
n o
f m
ore
th
an 1
60
VR
sta
ff in
Ap
ril
20
17
. Fi
nal
ly, T
WC
VR
sta
ff c
on
tin
ue
d t
o w
ork
wit
h t
he
Texa
s Ed
uca
tio
n A
gen
cy in
FY
20
17
to
dev
elo
p a
new
Mem
ora
nd
um
of
Un
de
rsta
nd
ing
that
will
gu
ide
TWC
VR
an
d L
oca
l Ed
uca
tio
n
Age
ncy
co
ord
inat
ion
eff
ort
s in
th
e co
min
g ye
ars.
Th
e n
ew M
OU
will
be
exec
ute
d in
th
e fa
ll o
f 2
01
7.
39
Goa
l Are
a 4:
Improve
and In
tegrate Program
s
Wha
t is the
objectiv
e?
How
are sy
stem
partners a
ddressing it?
Wha
t was accom
plishe
d this yea
r?
Employ en
hanced or alternative
program
and service delivery methods.
TJJD and TWC are iden
tifying and im
plementing
new
, relevant technology and service delivery
options to expand program
and service outcomes.
TWC is increasing competitive integrated
em
ploym
ent outcomes by increasing aw
aren
ess of
vocational reh
abilitation services and better
serving underserved
populations.
TWC is enhancing the quality of and increasing
access to quality child
care to support paren
ts in
obtaining and retaining em
ploym
ent.
49.69 percent of studen
ts that using technology for course content
delivery (TJJD)
1,238,951 utilized
labor market inform
ation products (TWC)
1,160,135 utilized
the WorkInTexas self‐service resource (TWC)
2,829 child
care providers utilized
online professional developmen
t courses (TW
C)
3,980 adult education providers utilized
online professional
developmen
t courses (TW
C)
53.89 percent of consumers served
with intellectual and
developmen
tal disabilities, m
ental health conditions, autism
, and
deaf‐blindness subsequen
tly en
tered competitive integrated
em
ploym
ent
12.55 percent of child
care providers were certified as Texas Rising
Star providers
Of paren
ts receiving child
care:
70.36 percent en
tered employm
ent and/or were
enrolled in
education or training
84.77 percent retained
employm
ent and/or were
enrolled in
education or training
Accelerate em
ploym
ent and im
prove efficiencies through
shared
resources that can
be leveraged to create new
, relevant, and innovative opportunities that
serve the needs of all stakeholders. By addressing high‐priority program
matic needs through
an integrated
strategy, decision‐m
aking at the system
, partner,
and participant levels is im
proved and system service delivery is enhanced. The changing economic and educational landscapes provide opportunities to
share relevant data through
appropriate “push” mechanisms in an organized
manner to key stakeholders who rely on inform
ation gen
erated
by system
partners.
40
Improve and Integrate Programs: Action Plan Implementation Summaries
Accelerate employment and improve efficiencies through shared resources that can be leveraged to create new, relevant, and innovative opportunities that serve the needs of all stakeholders. By addressing high‐priority programmatic needs through an integrated strategy, decision‐making at the system, partner, and participant levels is improved and system service delivery is enhanced. The changing economic and educational landscapes provide opportunities to share relevant data through appropriate “push” mechanisms in an organized manner to key stakeholders who rely on information generated by system partners.
System Partner Strategy Agency System Objective System Goal
Identify and implement new, relevant technology and service delivery options to expand program and service outcomes.
TJJD TWC
Employ enhanced or alternative program and service delivery methods.
Improve and integrate programs
Increase competitive integrated employment outcomes by increasing awareness of vocational rehabilitation services and better serving underserved populations.
TWC
Enhance quality of and increase access to quality child care to support parents in obtaining and retaining employment.
TWC
Two agencies are working to increase system outcomes by designing, planning, and implementing alternative delivery methods.
The following pages include action plan reports from each of the partner agencies. Please note that the reports contain information verbatim as submitted by the agencies.
41
Age
ncy
Te
xas
Juve
nile
Ju
stic
e D
epar
tmen
t
Go
al A
rea
4
– Im
pro
ve a
nd
Inte
grat
e P
rogr
ams
Stra
tegy
Id
enti
fy a
nd
imp
lem
ent
new
, rel
eva
nt
tech
no
logy
an
d s
ervi
ce d
eliv
ery
op
tio
ns
to e
xpan
d p
rogr
am a
nd
ser
vice
ou
tco
me
s.
Par
t 1
–Sta
tus
Up
dat
e f
or
Act
ion
s
Act
ual
[m
m/y
y]
Spec
ifie
d in
Pla
n
FY 2
01
7 S
tatu
s St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
Act
ion
St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
In p
rogr
ess
08
/17
0
1/1
8
Iden
tify
an
d im
ple
men
t a
web
des
ign
co
urs
e th
at c
an b
e ta
ugh
t w
ith
in a
co
rrec
tio
nal
in
fras
tru
ctu
re.
On
goin
g FY
20
16
Sub
stan
tial
ly c
om
ple
te
08
/15
0
2/1
6
Imp
lem
ent
a b
len
ded
lear
nin
g en
viro
nm
ent
wit
h a
se
cure
stu
den
t w
irel
ess
net
wo
rk d
rive
n
by
Go
ogl
e A
pp
s fo
r ed
uca
tio
n a
nd
mo
bile
dev
ice
s.
On
goin
g FY
20
16
Par
t 2
–FY
20
17
Ke
y A
ctiv
itie
s
Cu
rren
tly
on
ly o
ne
faci
lity
is a
ble
to
off
er w
irel
ess
acce
ss a
nd
it's
on
ly in
on
e cl
assr
oo
m w
her
e st
ud
en
ts a
re u
tiliz
ing
Ch
rom
e B
oo
ks f
or
inst
ruct
ion
. Ex
pan
sio
n t
o m
ore
th
an o
ne
clas
sro
om
is
un
der
way
. Fu
nd
ing
rest
rict
ion
s cu
rren
tly
pro
hib
it im
ple
me
nta
tio
n o
f w
irel
ess
acce
ss a
t o
ther
TJJ
D f
acili
ties
.
42
Age
ncy
Te
xas
Wo
rkfo
rce
Co
mm
issi
on
Go
al A
rea
4
– Im
pro
ve a
nd
Inte
grat
e P
rogr
ams
Stra
tegy
Id
enti
fy a
nd
imp
lem
ent
new
, rel
eva
nt
tech
no
logy
an
d s
ervi
ce d
eliv
ery
op
tio
ns
to e
xpan
d p
rogr
am a
nd
ser
vice
ou
tco
me
s.
Par
t 1
–Sta
tus
Up
dat
e f
or
Act
ion
s
Act
ual
[m
m/y
y]
Spec
ifie
d in
Pla
n
FY 2
01
7 S
tatu
s St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
Act
ion
St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
In p
rogr
ess
09
/15
Ex
pan
d s
elf-
serv
ice
and
dis
tan
ce le
arn
ing
op
tio
ns
for
the
del
iver
y o
f w
ork
forc
e se
rvic
es,
in
clu
din
g ad
ult
ed
uca
tio
n a
nd
lite
racy
se
rvic
es
and
pro
fess
ion
al d
evel
op
men
t fo
r ch
ild c
are
pro
vid
ers
and
ad
ult
ed
uca
tio
n a
nd
lite
racy
ser
vice
pro
vid
ers.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
9
In p
rogr
ess
09
/15
En
han
ce e
ase
of
acce
ss t
o a
nd
use
of
lab
or
mar
ket
info
rmat
ion
to
ols
to
ad
dre
ss t
he
nee
ds
of
mu
ltip
le a
ud
ien
ces,
incl
ud
ing
job
see
kers
, em
plo
yers
, stu
den
ts, r
ese
arch
ers,
an
d o
ther
wo
rkfo
rce
stak
eho
lder
s.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
7
Par
t 2
–FY
20
17
Ke
y A
ctiv
itie
s
Exp
and
sel
f-se
rvic
e an
d d
ista
nce
lear
nin
g o
pti
on
s fo
r th
e d
eliv
ery
of
wo
rkfo
rce
serv
ices
…
TWC
has
pro
vid
ed a
pp
roxi
mat
ely
$2
50
,00
0 o
ver
the
last
th
ree
year
s to
man
age
AEL
pro
fess
ion
al d
eve
lop
men
t re
gist
rati
on
, do
cum
enta
tio
n, a
nd
in-h
ou
se t
rain
ing
mat
eria
ls w
hile
at
the
sam
e ti
me
pro
vid
ing
a p
latf
orm
fo
r o
n-d
eman
d c
ou
rsew
are
and
vir
tual
inte
ract
ive
trai
nin
g. T
he
LMS
is a
clo
ud
-bas
ed
, fu
ll-fe
atu
red
, off
-th
e-sh
elf
sec
ure
sys
tem
wit
h c
ou
rse
regi
stra
tio
n a
nd
m
anag
emen
t fo
r in
-pe
rso
n, h
ybri
d, a
nd
on
line
trai
nin
g ev
ents
. Fu
nd
s al
so s
up
po
rt a
cces
s to
a c
lou
d-b
ase
d c
ou
rse
libra
ry a
nd
inte
ract
ive
reso
urc
es, a
web
co
nfe
ren
cin
g in
tegr
ated
ad
d-i
n, a
nd
tr
ain
ing
fee
s to
su
ffic
ien
tly
acco
mm
od
ate
the
nec
essa
ry in
stru
cto
rs, a
dm
inis
trat
ors
, an
d s
oft
war
e co
nte
nt
to p
rovi
de
a fu
ll ar
ray
of
pro
fess
ion
al d
evel
op
me
nt
serv
ices
acr
oss
Tex
as.
TWC
ap
pro
ved
$5
00
,00
0 f
or
an in
itia
tive
to
pro
vid
e fu
nd
ing
to im
ple
me
nt
a ca
ll ce
nte
r to
su
pp
ort
Tex
as a
du
lts
stru
gglin
g in
mat
he
mat
ics.
Th
e fo
cus
is t
o p
rovi
de
live
tuto
r su
pp
ort
fo
r h
igh
sc
ho
ol e
qu
ival
en
cy e
xam
s (G
ED, H
iSet
, an
d T
ASC
) an
d o
the
r ga
tew
ay t
ests
, in
clu
din
g th
e Te
xas
Succ
ess
Init
iati
ve A
sses
smen
t (T
SIA
) an
d t
he
Arm
ed
Se
rvic
es V
oca
tio
nal
Ap
titu
de
Bat
tery
(A
SVA
B).
Cal
l cen
ter
staf
f u
tiliz
e o
nlin
e tu
tori
ng
soft
war
e to
pro
vid
e vi
sual
su
pp
ort
to
stu
de
nts
in a
dd
itio
n t
o p
ho
ne
sup
po
rt.
In M
arch
20
15
, TW
C a
pp
rove
d f
un
din
g fo
r A
EL p
rovi
der
s to
su
pp
ort
a m
ore
ro
bu
st e
xpan
sio
n o
f d
ista
nce
lear
nin
g. T
he
pro
ject
incl
ud
ed a
sp
ecia
l em
ph
asis
on
th
e u
se o
f d
ista
nce
lear
nin
g so
ftw
are
and
rel
ated
co
sts
to a
dd
ress
th
e ri
gor
of
the
GED
20
14
te
st, T
exas
Cer
tifi
cate
of
Hig
h S
cho
ol E
qu
ival
ency
.
Reg
ard
ing
dis
tan
ce le
arn
ing
op
po
rtu
nit
ies
to s
up
po
rt c
hild
car
e p
rovi
der
s, T
exas
Agr
i-Li
fe E
xten
sio
n S
ervi
ce d
evel
op
ed
on
-lin
e tr
ain
ing
cou
rses
fo
r ch
ild c
are
pro
vid
ers
wit
h f
un
din
g p
revi
ou
sly
pro
vid
ed f
rom
TW
C (
20
10
). T
WC
als
o c
on
trac
ted
wit
h D
FPS
to e
nh
ance
an
d e
xpan
d t
he
child
car
e tr
ain
ing
off
erin
gs (
20
14
). A
ll o
f th
ese
child
car
e o
nlin
e tr
ain
ing
reso
urc
es c
on
tin
ue
to b
e av
aila
ble
on
th
e A
griL
ife
Exte
nsi
on
web
site
at
htt
p:/
/ext
ensi
on
on
line.
tam
u.e
du
/co
urs
es/c
hild
_car
e.p
hp
.
TWC
has
als
o p
artn
ered
wit
h t
he
Ch
ildre
n’s
Lea
rnin
g In
stit
ute
, par
t o
f th
e U
T H
ealt
h S
cie
nce
Cen
ter,
to
su
pp
ort
ch
ild c
are
pro
vid
ers
wh
o a
re d
esig
nat
ed a
s Te
xas
Ris
ing
Star
(TR
S) p
rovi
der
s.
CLI
’s o
nlin
e En
gage
pla
tfo
rm h
ttp
s://
clie
nga
ge.o
rg/p
ub
lic/
pro
vid
es
a co
mp
reh
ensi
ve, i
nte
grat
ed s
et
of
reso
urc
es t
hat
pro
vid
es
on
line
pro
fess
ion
al d
eve
lop
men
t, in
clu
din
g vi
deo
-bas
ed
dem
on
stra
tio
ns
of
effe
ctiv
e in
stru
ctio
nal
pra
ctic
es.
Pro
vid
ers
als
o h
ave
acce
ss t
o p
rovi
de
earl
y ch
ildh
oo
d t
each
ers
trai
nin
g h
ou
rs n
eed
ed t
o a
pp
ly f
or
the
Ch
ild D
evel
op
men
t A
sso
ciat
e (C
DA
) C
red
enti
al T
M.
TWC
pla
ns
to e
xpan
d a
cces
s to
th
e o
nlin
e En
gage
pro
fess
ion
al d
evel
op
men
t re
sou
rces
to
ch
ild c
are
pro
vid
ers
wh
o a
pp
ly t
o b
eco
me
TRS-
cert
ifie
d.
43
In a
cco
rdan
ce w
ith
Rid
er 3
0, A
rtic
le V
II, G
ener
al A
pp
rop
riat
ion
s A
ct (
GA
A),
84
th T
exas
Leg
isla
ture
(2
01
4),
an
d R
ider
29
, Art
icle
VII
-40
, GA
A, 8
5th
Tex
as L
egis
latu
re (
20
15
), T
WC
ded
icat
ed
$5
00
,00
0 in
eac
h y
ear
of
the
bie
nn
ium
fo
r p
rogr
ams
that
en
cou
rage
ear
ly c
hild
ho
od
pro
fess
ion
als
incr
ease
d p
arti
cip
atio
n in
co
nti
nu
ing
pro
fess
ion
al d
eve
lop
men
t fo
r e
arly
ch
ildh
oo
d
pro
fess
ion
als.
Th
ese
fun
ds
are
com
pet
itiv
ely
pro
curr
ed.
In 2
01
6-2
01
7, t
he
Texa
s A
sso
ciat
ion
fo
r th
e Ed
uca
tio
n o
f Yo
un
g C
hild
ren
(TA
EYC
) w
as s
elec
ted
to
pro
vid
e p
rofe
ssio
nal
dev
elo
pm
en
t o
pp
ort
un
itie
s fo
r ch
ild c
are
pro
fess
ion
als.
Enh
ance
eas
e o
f ac
cess
to
an
d u
se o
f LM
I…
Wo
rk b
egan
wit
h a
Lab
or
Mar
ket
and
Car
eer
Info
rmat
ion
(LM
CI)
web
site
re
des
ign
in S
ep
tem
ber
20
15
an
d c
on
tin
ued
th
rou
gh F
Y 2
01
7.
To d
ate,
in a
dd
itio
n t
o t
he
red
esi
gned
LM
CI h
om
e p
age,
th
e la
bo
r m
arke
t in
form
atio
n a
nd
car
eer
dev
elo
pm
en
t su
b-p
ages
wer
e re
do
ne;
th
e R
ealit
y C
hec
k w
eb a
pp
licat
ion
was
rew
ritt
en
; th
e Te
xas
CA
RES
car
eer
exp
lora
tio
n t
oo
l was
rep
lace
d b
y Te
xas
Car
eer
Ch
eck;
th
e Te
xas
Wag
es w
eb s
ite
was
rew
ritt
en; a
ne
w w
ork
forc
e su
pp
ly-d
eman
d t
oo
l, Te
xas
Lab
or
An
alys
is, i
s u
nd
er d
evel
op
men
t fo
r la
un
ch in
Dec
emb
er 2
01
7; a
nd
init
ial
dev
elo
pm
en
tal a
ctiv
itie
s ar
e u
nd
erw
ay t
o r
epla
ce t
he
TRA
CER
2 d
ata
retr
ieva
l sit
e. I
n a
dd
itio
n, t
he
mo
nth
ly T
exas
Lab
or
Mar
ket
Rev
iew
was
red
esig
ned
; th
e Te
xas
Inte
rnsh
ip C
hal
len
ge s
ite
was
la
un
che
d; a
nd
th
e tr
i-ag
en
cy s
tud
ent-
ed
uca
tor
po
rtal
, Tex
as O
nC
ou
rse,
was
dev
elo
pe
d.
Als
o, n
um
ero
us
pri
nte
d p
ub
licat
ion
s w
ere
rew
ritt
en a
nd
incl
ud
e fu
lly a
cces
sib
le e
lect
ron
ic v
ersi
on
s.
44
Age
ncy
Te
xas
Wo
rkfo
rce
Co
mm
issi
on
Go
al A
rea
4
– Im
pro
ve a
nd
Inte
grat
e P
rogr
ams
Stra
tegy
In
crea
se c
om
pet
itiv
e in
tegr
ated
em
plo
ymen
t o
utc
om
es
by
incr
easi
ng
awar
ene
ss o
f vo
cati
on
al r
ehab
ilita
tio
n s
ervi
ces
and
bet
ter
serv
ing
un
der
serv
ed p
op
ula
tio
ns.
Par
t 1
–Sta
tus
Up
dat
e f
or
Act
ion
s
Act
ual
[m
m/y
y]
Spec
ifie
d in
Pla
n
FY 2
01
7 S
tatu
s St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
Act
ion
St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
C
on
du
ct r
esea
rch
an
d c
olla
bo
rate
wit
h s
take
ho
lder
s, p
rovi
der
s, a
nd
par
tner
s to
iden
tify
b
est
and
pro
mis
ing
pra
ctic
es in
th
e p
rovi
sio
n o
f vo
cati
on
al r
ehab
ilita
tio
n s
ervi
ces
to
un
der
serv
ed p
op
ula
tio
ns,
incl
ud
ing
tho
se w
ith
au
tism
, in
telle
ctu
al a
nd
dev
elo
pm
enta
l d
isab
iliti
es,
men
tal h
ealt
h c
on
dit
ion
s, a
nd
ind
ivid
ual
s w
ho
are
dea
f-b
lind
.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
8
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
D
evel
op
, pilo
t, a
nd
imp
lem
ent
new
or
revi
sed
ser
vice
s an
d/o
r se
rvic
e d
eliv
ery
met
ho
ds
to in
crea
se e
mp
loym
ent
ou
tco
me
s fo
r u
nd
erse
rved
po
pu
lati
on
s.
FY 2
01
7
FY 2
01
9
No
t st
arte
d
10
/17
B
uild
sta
ff a
nd
pro
vid
er c
apac
ity
to e
ffec
tive
ly s
erve
un
der
serv
ed p
op
ula
tio
ns
thro
ugh
d
evel
op
men
t an
d im
ple
men
tati
on
of
po
licy,
sta
nd
ard
s, g
uid
ance
, an
d t
rain
ing.
FY
20
18
FY
20
19
In p
rogr
ess
09
/16
C
olla
bo
rate
wit
h s
take
ho
lder
s an
d r
esea
rch
bes
t p
ract
ice
s to
iden
tify
an
d im
ple
men
t im
pro
vem
ents
in t
he
coo
rdin
atio
n o
f in
form
atio
n a
nd
ser
vice
s to
vet
eran
s w
ith
dis
abili
ties
. FY
20
16
FY
20
19
Par
t 2
–FY
20
17
Ke
y A
ctiv
itie
s
Co
nd
uct
res
earc
h a
nd
co
llab
ora
te w
ith
sta
keh
old
ers,
pro
vid
ers
, an
d p
artn
ers
to id
en
tifi
y b
est
and
pro
mis
ing
pra
ctic
es…
Cu
sto
mer
s w
ith
Ne
uro
dev
elo
pm
enta
l Dis
ord
ers
are
the
larg
est
po
pu
lati
on
th
at V
oca
tio
nal
Reh
abili
tati
on
ser
ves.
TW
C V
R h
as d
evel
op
ed a
nd
imp
lem
en
ted
po
licy
and
ser
vice
s to
imp
rove
su
cces
sfu
l ou
tco
mes
fo
r in
div
idu
als
wit
h N
eu
rod
evel
op
men
tal D
iso
rder
s, s
uch
as
Au
tism
Sp
ectr
um
Dis
ord
er a
nd
Inte
llect
ual
an
d D
evel
op
men
tal D
isab
iliti
es.
VR
co
un
selo
rs r
ece
ive
trai
nin
g o
n
Neu
rod
evel
op
me
nta
l Dis
ord
ers
ann
ual
ly t
hro
ugh
six
re
gio
nal
tra
inin
g se
ssio
ns.
In
ad
dit
ion
, a n
ew s
ervi
ce a
vaila
ble
to
VR
cu
sto
mer
s w
ith
Neu
rod
evel
op
men
tal D
iso
rder
s is
th
e En
viro
nm
enta
l W
ork
Ass
essm
ent,
wh
ich
ass
ess
es
ho
w a
cu
sto
mer
res
po
nd
s to
var
iab
les
in a
wo
rk e
nvi
ron
men
t. R
esu
lts
of
this
ass
essm
ent
ide
nti
fy t
ho
se v
aria
ble
s th
at im
pac
t th
e p
erso
n’s
ab
ility
to
per
form
su
cces
sfu
lly in
a g
iven
wo
rk e
nvi
ron
men
t. A
ccu
rate
ass
ess
me
nt
of
the
corr
elat
ion
s b
etw
een
a c
ust
om
er’s
per
form
ance
an
d e
nvi
ron
men
tal v
aria
ble
s is
cri
tica
l to
his
or
her
ob
tain
ing
and
m
ain
tain
ing
emp
loym
ent.
Dev
elo
p, p
ilot,
an
d im
ple
men
t n
ew
or
revi
sed
se
rvic
es a
nd
/or
serv
ice
del
iver
y m
eth
od
s…
In F
Y 2
01
7, T
WC
VR
res
tru
ctu
red
th
e d
eafb
lind
pro
gram
to
incr
ease
res
ou
rce
s av
aila
ble
to
dea
fblin
d c
ust
om
ers,
wit
h t
he
goal
to
incr
ease
cu
sto
mer
s se
rved
an
d im
pro
ve e
mp
loym
ent
ou
tco
mes
. M
ost
of
the
dea
fblin
d p
rogr
am a
nd
sta
ff b
ecam
e p
art
of
the
Cri
ss C
ole
Reh
abili
tati
on
Ce
nte
r, w
hic
h b
ette
r en
able
s d
eafb
lind
cu
sto
mer
s to
su
cces
sfu
lly p
arti
cip
ate
in a
wid
er a
rray
o
f tr
ain
ing
op
po
rtu
nit
ies.
In
ad
dit
ion
, TW
C e
xpan
de
d t
rain
ing
faci
litie
s fo
r d
eafb
lind
cu
sto
mer
s b
y in
crea
sin
g th
e n
um
ber
of
apar
tmen
ts u
sed
fo
r sk
ills
trai
nin
g fr
om
on
e to
tw
o.
The
rem
ain
der
o
f d
eafb
lind
pro
gram
sta
ff w
ere
assi
gned
to
wo
rk a
t th
e re
gio
nal
leve
l, b
ette
r p
osi
tio
nin
g th
em t
o s
erve
dea
fblin
d c
ust
om
ers
and
co
nsu
lt w
ith
VR
co
un
selo
rs s
ervi
ng
dea
fblin
d c
ust
om
ers.
45
Co
llab
ora
te w
ith
sta
keh
old
ers
an
d r
esea
rch
be
st p
ract
ice
s to
ide
nti
fy a
nd
imp
lem
ent
imp
rove
me
nts
…
In F
Y 2
01
5, V
R e
stab
lish
ed a
Vet
era
ns
Thin
k Ta
nk
to r
evie
w p
rogr
am p
olic
y an
d d
iscu
ss s
trat
egi
es f
or
imp
rovi
ng
serv
ices
to
vet
eran
s w
ith
dis
abili
ties
. P
arti
cip
ants
incl
ud
ed
VR
Co
un
selo
rs,
par
tner
s fr
om
th
e V
A, r
ep
rese
nta
tive
s fr
om
th
e Te
xas
Co
ord
inat
ing
Co
un
cil f
or
Vet
eran
s Se
rvic
es,
an
d t
he
Hea
lth
an
d H
um
an S
ervi
ces
Co
mm
issi
on
. To
pic
s d
iscu
sse
d in
clu
de
d s
trat
egie
s th
at
wo
uld
incr
ease
th
e n
um
ber
of
vete
ran
s w
ho
ap
ply
fo
r se
rvic
es a
nd
str
ateg
ies
and
to
ols
th
at le
ad t
o s
ucc
essf
ul c
losu
res.
In
FY
20
16
, new
VR
po
licy
was
cre
ated
an
d im
ple
me
nte
d t
o p
rovi
de
guid
ance
to
co
un
selo
rs.
Wo
rkin
g re
lati
on
ship
s h
ave
bee
n e
stab
lish
ed w
ith
th
e V
A t
o c
oo
rdin
ate
serv
ices
bet
we
en V
R a
nd
th
e V
A t
o s
erve
mu
tual
cu
sto
mer
s.
46
Age
ncy
Te
xas
Wo
rkfo
rce
Co
mm
issi
on
Go
al A
rea
4
– Im
pro
ve a
nd
Inte
grat
e P
rogr
ams
Stra
tegy
En
han
ce q
ual
ity
of
and
incr
ease
acc
ess
to q
ual
ity
child
car
e to
su
pp
ort
par
ents
in o
bta
inin
g an
d r
etai
nin
g em
plo
ymen
t.
Par
t 1
–Sta
tus
Up
dat
e f
or
Act
ion
s
Act
ual
[m
m/y
y]
Spec
ifie
d in
Pla
n
FY 2
01
7 S
tatu
s St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
Act
ion
St
art
Dat
e
End
Dat
e
In p
rogr
ess
09
/15
In
crea
se t
he
nu
mb
er o
f ch
ild c
are
pro
vid
ers
cert
ifie
d a
s m
eet
ing
the
Texa
s R
isin
g St
ar o
r o
ther
rec
ogn
ized
qu
alit
y ra
tin
g sy
ste
m s
tan
dar
ds
in t
he
child
car
e sy
ste
m.
FY 2
01
6
FY 2
01
9
In p
rogr
ess
09
/15
Fa
cilit
ate
the
em
plo
ymen
t o
utc
om
es
of
par
ents
th
rou
gh a
cces
s to
ch
ild c
are.
FY
20
16
FY
20
19
Par
t 2
–FY
20
17
Ke
y A
ctiv
itie
s
Incr
ease
th
e n
um
ber
of
child
car
e p
rovi
der
s ce
rtif
ied
as
mee
tin
g th
e TR
S…
Texa
s R
isin
g St
ar p
rovi
der
s h
ave
incr
ease
d f
rom
83
5 o
n S
epte
mb
er 1
, 20
15
, to
nea
rly
1,1
00
by
May
1, 2
01
7.
In A
ugu
st 2
01
6, t
he
Co
mm
issi
on
ap
pro
ved
$2
50
,00
0 in
Ch
ild C
are
and
Dev
elo
pm
ent
Fun
din
g (C
CD
F) t
o s
up
po
rt t
he
use
of
Texa
s Ea
rly
Ch
ildh
oo
d P
rofe
ssio
nal
Dev
elo
pm
ent
Syst
em’s
Tex
as
Wo
rkfo
rce
Reg
istr
y (T
WR
) b
y Te
xas
Ris
ing
Star
(TR
S) c
erti
fie
d p
rovi
der
s o
r ch
ild c
are
pro
vid
ers
app
lyin
g fo
r an
d w
ork
ing
wit
h T
RS
me
nto
r to
ach
ieve
TR
S ce
rtif
icat
ion
. T
WR
is a
web
-bas
ed
app
licat
ion
fo
r ea
rly
child
ho
od
ed
uca
tio
n (
ECE)
pro
fess
ion
als
wh
o w
ork
wit
h c
hild
ren
bir
th t
o a
ge 8
, to
kee
p t
rack
of
thei
r e
du
cati
on
an
d e
mp
loym
ent
his
tory
, an
d t
rain
ing
ho
urs
. Th
e TW
R is
ad
min
iste
red
by
the
Texa
s H
ead
Sta
rt C
olla
bo
rati
on
Off
ice
of
the
Ch
ildre
n’s
Lea
rnin
g In
stit
ute
(C
LI).
This
fu
nd
ing
incr
ease
d s
taff
su
pp
ort
fo
r TW
R, s
ign
ific
antl
y re
du
ced
th
e an
nu
al r
egi
stry
fee
s, a
nd
incr
ease
d a
war
en
ess
and
ben
efit
s o
f th
e TW
R f
or
ECE
pro
fess
ion
als
and
ch
ild c
are
cen
ter
dir
ecto
rs.
The
pro
ject
will
allo
w a
ll TR
S p
rovi
der
s in
th
e st
ate
to u
se t
he
regi
stry
to
su
bm
it s
taff
ed
uca
tio
n a
nd
cre
den
tial
info
rmat
ion
fo
r va
lidat
ion
an
d s
cori
ng
by
the
TRS
asse
sso
rs.
The
IAC
wit
h C
LI w
as e
xecu
ted
on
Ap
ril 1
2, 2
01
7 w
ith
a s
ched
ule
d f
ull
imp
lem
en
tati
on
in J
anu
ary
20
18
.
In F
Y20
15
TW
C im
ple
men
ted
su
bst
anti
al c
han
ges
to t
he
TRS
cert
ific
atio
n s
yste
m.
Thes
e ch
ange
s st
ren
gth
ened
th
e ce
rtif
icat
ion
cri
teri
a to
pro
vid
e a
hig
her
leve
l of
qu
alit
y st
and
ard
s. T
WC
als
o
pro
vid
es a
dd
itio
nal
fu
nd
s to
Bo
ard
s to
hir
e TR
S m
en
tors
an
d a
sse
sso
rs t
o p
rovi
de
add
itio
nal
ass
ista
nce
to
pro
vid
ers
in m
eet
ing
the
hig
her
TR
S st
and
ard
s. T
RS
con
tin
ues
to
pro
vid
e o
ngo
ing
fun
din
g to
Bo
ard
s fo
r TR
S as
sess
or
and
men
tor
staf
fin
g as
wel
l as
fun
din
g to
imp
rove
th
e q
ual
ity
of
child
car
e se
rvic
es.
Faci
litat
e th
e em
plo
ymen
t o
utc
om
es o
f p
aren
ts…
Effe
ctiv
e O
cto
ber
20
16
an
d p
urs
uan
t to
th
e C
CD
BG
Rea
uth
ori
zati
on
, TW
C a
men
ded
th
e ch
ild c
are
rule
s to
re
qu
ire
that
a c
hild
’s e
ligib
ility
fo
r ch
ild c
are
serv
ices
co
nti
nu
e fo
r 1
2 m
on
ths
rega
rdle
ss o
f an
y te
mp
ora
ry c
han
ge in
th
e p
aren
t’s
emp
loym
ent
stat
us.
Th
e ch
ange
als
o r
equ
ires
3-m
on
ths
of
con
tin
ued
car
e if
th
e p
aren
t ex
per
ien
ces
a p
erm
anen
t lo
ss o
f em
plo
ymen
t d
uri
ng
the
12
-mo
nth
elig
ibili
ty p
erio
d.
This
ch
ange
is e
xpec
ted
to
pro
vid
e gr
eate
r st
abili
ty f
or
con
tin
ued
ch
ild c
are
serv
ices
in o
rder
to
ass
ist
par
ents
in m
ain
tain
ing
emp
loym
ent
or
bec
om
ing
re-e
mp
loye
d d
uri
ng
the
12
-mo
nth
per
iod
. It
sh
ou
ld b
e n
ote
d t
hat
eve
n t
ho
ugh
th
is w
ill p
rovi
de
grea
ter
child
car
e st
abili
ty, t
he
req
uir
emen
t fo
r 1
2-m
on
ths
of
child
car
e w
ill a
lso
res
ult
in f
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Strategic Pillars
To achieve the vision of an innovative, world‐class Texas workforce system, the Council identified three core competencies, or imperatives, that must be strengthened across the system: customer service and satisfaction, data‐driven program improvement, and continuous improvement and innovation. These three imperatives serve as the foundational pillars upon which the system’s capacity to identify and respond to changing market conditions and the needs of all system customers are enhanced. Examples of related system and partner agency initiatives are outlined below.
Strategic System Initiatives
The Council’s approach to develop and implement strategic system initiatives is structured around six phases in the life cycle of an initiative, including research, launch, proof of concept, plan, execute, and institutionalize the innovation and learning developed through the process. This approach provides the Council with direct oversight in the planning and management of each phase of any system initiative and the flexibility to introduce new initiatives or adapt, merge, and scale promising practices into system initiatives over the strategic plan period.
Industry‐Based Certifications System Initiative
At the June 2016 meeting, the Council approved the project scope and primary objectives for its first strategic system initiative following extensive research on middle‐skill occupations and industry‐based STEM certifications. This initiative would seek to identify and track third‐party, industry‐based certifications in Texas. The overarching goal is to increase the system’s capacity to help students and workers earn credentials of value in the Texas labor market. With two distinct project cycles, the initiative addresses all three strategic pillars. It is directly aligned to the employer‐related strategy to use industry‐based certification as an education or training outcome to connect graduate competencies to job skill requirements in order to expand licensure and industry certification in the state.
Based on the Council research, the initiative focuses on two issues: the changing demand for middle‐skill workers and the increasing demand for workers with industry‐based certifications. Council research has shown that workers with STEM skills at all levels of educational attainment experience stronger employment outcomes and higher lifetime earnings.1 The work is further supported by Council research reports that define third‐party, industry‐based certifications; define and identify middle‐skill STEM occupations; and link those occupations with associated certifications.2 An initial list of industry‐based certifications for middle‐skill STEM occupations in Texas has been compiled, based on the definition in the research.
The Council charged a task group to lead the development and execution of the first cycle of the project. Task group members included representatives from employers, external stakeholders, and partner agencies. The group designed a replicable process to analyze and reduce the list of approximately 1,500 industry‐based certifications that support middle‐skill STEM occupations in Texas. In September 2017, acting on recommendations from the task group, the Council endorsed a process that would engage Texas employers through the local workforce boards to determine which of the certifications have value in the hiring process.
The local board executive directors and board chairs were briefed and strongly supported the approach to facilitate feedback by employers in each region of the state. The middle‐skill STEM occupations have been assigned to each of the 28 local workforce development areas (WDA). Each WDA will receive a regional profile that will include instructions for the data collection and feedback submission process as well as fillable forms for each occupation, the associated industry‐based certifications, the value question, and directions to guide the
1 Texas Workforce Investment Council, “STEM as a Workforce Advantage,” Research to Support Strategic Planning (June 2014). 2 Texas Workforce Investment Council, Tracking Industry‐Based Certifications (June 2015), Defining Middle‐Skill STEM Occupations in Texas (December 2015), and Identifying Industry‐Based Certifications for Middle‐Skill STEM Occupations in Texas (February 2016).
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employers. The occupations included in each regional profile match those indicated in the local board plan’s demand and target occupations lists. Additional occupations may also be assigned using supplemental labor market information (projected employment by WDA 2014–2024) and based upon a percentage increase of 10 percent growth or more for the WDA.
In fiscal year 2018, the local boards will implement the statewide employer feedback process to determine which industry‐based certifications for an occupation make a positive difference in the hiring process. Additional information will be collected to allow the responses to be analyzed in aggregate and by company size and location, to consider distinctions between urban and rural labor markets. The resulting list of certifications will serve as a resource for system partners in the development, review, and enhancement of education and training programs that align with regional and state occupational demand.
The second cycle in this system initiative will focus on developing a system to capture the types and numbers of third‐party, industry‐based certifications and licenses across state workforce education and training programs. In time, the workforce system would ideally be able to provide data on third‐party, industry‐based certifications that support employment and increased wages, and potentially link individuals with certifications to the state labor exchange and labor market information systems.
Developing a Grant Products Repository to Leverage Discretionary Wagner‐Peyser 7(b) Grant Outcomes in Texas – A System Initiative
Valuable products in the form of curricula, assessments, training models, and other resources are developed each year to support workforce programs and services that are funded through competitive grants. When similar needs develop in other industries, workforce populations, or regions of the state, system partners may be able to reuse or repurpose these products. Research was conducted to determine whether other states allocate Wagner‐Peyser 7(b) funding through competitive grants, and if so, whether and how grant products are collected, stored, and disseminated to support other initiatives. When no examples could be found, the Council launched its second strategic system initiative at its meeting in June 2017 to create a vehicle for collecting, storing, and managing grant products that have been created through the Wagner‐Peyser 7(b) grants program and making the products directly available to the workforce development community.
The goal of this system initiative is to leverage effective products created with grant funding to accelerate specific objectives in future grants and workforce programs to reduce any duplication of time and effort. This would make content that has demonstrated success in a previous grant available to future grant recipients and other system partners. The size and scope of the Wagner‐Peyser 7(b) grant program offers an opportunity to capture innovative products and practices and initiate the development of a repository. An information repository stores information in a centralized place to provide a single resource where stakeholders can directly access information that is useful to the work being conducted. The grant products repository will be designed to help grant applicants and system partners locate products that can be reused or repurposed to jump start future programs and services.
The primary users of this repository would be grant applicants, system partners, and stakeholders that may include state agencies; local workforce development boards; institutions of higher education–particularly community and technical colleges; local school districts; and economic development, faith‐based, and other not‐for‐profit community‐based organizations. Potential applicants and other workforce education and training providers would be able to access the repository to identify available resources that support workforce development needs and grant application proposals.
In collaboration with the Texas Workforce Commission, changes were introduced in the 2017 grant application and contracts to prepare the program to begin collecting products. The revised application directly references the types of products that will be collected, the format in which the product must be remitted, and the deadline by which the products will be due. Wagner‐Peyser 7(b) grants provide funding for one year and the contract language
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requires that products will be due no later than 60 days prior to the end of the grant. The state will begin receiving products in the latter part of 2018 as the grant contracts close.
For the current and future grant cycles, all products that are created using grant funds are required to be remitted at the end of the contract; however, not all products from all grants would be stored in the repository. Retention will be based upon indicators of the quality of each product. To develop a product repository that promotes continuous improvement, a process will be developed to evaluate the products and determine which products contribute to successful outcomes and may be useful to future grants. The evaluation process will be implemented as grant products are received, and only the products that meet the criteria defined by this process will be stored in the repository.
The Wagner‐Peyser 7(b) grant program objectives emphasize innovation in delivering programs and services that increase credential attainment and attachment to employment for youth and populations with special needs. These outcomes will serve as organizing principles for the repository design that will determine how the selected products are stored and maintained and how information about the products will be accessed by system partners and stakeholders. The repository will be made openly accessible online to allow searches that can help applicants identify products that may advance new project objectives and to directly disseminate the products. Once the site specifications for the repository have been determined, a solution for hosting and requirements will be identified and an ongoing process for maintenance will be developed to determine how the repository will be kept up‐to‐date and refreshed at specific intervals.
The nature of this initiative means that there will necessarily be a long event horizon. Each step is complex and requires a thoughtful decision process to advance the initiative to the next phase. The revisions to the grant application highlight the program’s emphasis on innovation and the performance outcomes of the grants. Implementation of the repository will be contingent upon the nature and quality of the grant products.
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Texas Skill Standards System
Preparing workers with the skills and knowledge required for jobs in today’s economy is a major goal of the Texas workforce system. In particular, employers have been struggling to fill middle‐skill occupations, especially those requiring science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Closing the skills gap and hiring qualified employees is one of the key contributors to the success of any organization. But before workers can be prepared with targeted education and training for any job, both the work content and the skills and knowledge needed to
perform the work must be identified. Such job specifications and worker characteristics are sometimes called competency profiles or skill standards. And facilitating industry to develop skill standards is one of the main functions of the Texas skill standards system, which is legislatively required to encompass middle-skill occupations. Skill standards are a tool for industry to communicate occupational requirements to education and
training providers.
History
In 1995, the 74th Texas Legislature established the Texas Skill Standards Board (TSSB) to develop a statewide system of industry‐defined and industry‐recognized skill standards. TSSB’s role was to facilitate industry to: define the content of major, skilled, high‐demand, high‐wage sub‐baccalaureate (or middle-skill) occupations; and identify the knowledge, skills and proficiency levels required by workers to perform the jobs. TSSB was also charged to:
recognize standards that meet TSSB‐established validity and reliability criteria,
promote the voluntary system to employers,
assist education and training providers to use the standards in their workforce programs, and
facilitate the portability of skills by recognizing standards and credentials from other states and nations.
Over the next 21 years, TSSB recognized skill standards that met its validity and reliability criteria, whether those standards were developed within the state or endorsed by a national or state industry group or government body. The validity and reliability criteria were documented in TSSB’s Guidelines for the Development, Recognition, and Usage of Skill Standards, which provided guidance and requirements for industry groups developing skill standards for recognition. Currently, skill standards for 43 occupations are posted in the public domain on the Texas skill standards website. A labor market information model was developed to identify those occupations that met the legislative criteria for the skill standards system but also did not conflict with existing industry‐based certifications. The model identified occupations for standards development, mostly for STEM‐related, technician occupations, many of them emerging and evolving, including: fuel cell system technician; nanotechnology technician; biomanufacturing; digital forensics technician; geographic information systems technician; photonics technician; web development and administration; and manufacturing production and logistics technicians.
In collaboration with its workforce system partner, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, which provided incentive grant funding, TSSB developed an initiative to recognize community and technical college programs that incorporated skill standards into their curriculum. This initiative required colleges to teach and assess students on the standards. TSSB developed a second policy document, Guidelines for the Certification and Credentialing of Skill Attainment, to provide guidance and requirements for colleges applying for program recognition. The program recognition policy included a renewal requirement every three years.
Transfer under Sunset Legislation
In 2015, during the 84th Texas legislative session, the Texas Workforce Investment Council underwent Sunset review in accordance with Texas Government Code, Chapter 325 (Texas Sunset Act). The Sunset Advisory Commission noted the following in its final report. TSSB had accomplished most of its key tasks. TSSB’s remaining duties could easily and more efficiently be assumed by the Council, encompassed within its broader directive to promote the development of a well‐educated and highly skilled workforce. The commission concluded that this consolidation would effectively streamline the administration of related workforce development
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functions under a single entity. Thus, it recommended that TSSB be abolished and its functions be fully integrated into the Council by the end of fiscal year 2015. On September 1, 2015, House Bill 1606 transferred the statutory functions of TSSB to the Council, and charged it with developing and maintaining the skill standards system. In December 2015, the Council adopted both sets of policy documents governing the system, and recognized the skill standards previously recognized by TSSB.
FY 2017 Progress
Two colleges initially renewed the Council recognition for four programs, which required them to have assessments in place to measure students’ mastery of all the skill standards’ competencies. An additional 12 colleges, which had previously submitted proof of their assessments at initial renewal, subsequently renewed the recognition for 14 programs. As of the end of FY 2017, there were 50 recognized programs at 28 community and technical colleges in Texas.
While the Council is mandated to develop and maintain the Texas skill standards system, participation by industry and colleges in the system is voluntary. Thus, promoting the development and use of skill standards among those groups is an important part of meeting the mandates. In FY 2017, the Council considered and endorsed the following strategies to address each mandate in the upcoming year.
Mandate 1 The first mandate specifies that the Council shall “validate and recognize nationally established skill standards,” which is addressed with its conditional recognition policy. According to the development guidelines, this designation relates to standards developed by another state or by a national or international industry group or other stakeholder such as a recognition authority. The second part of the mandate directs that the standards be used to “guide curriculum development, training, assessment, and certification of workforce skills.” The primary vehicle to address this mandate is program recognition, which provides an incentive for community and technical colleges to use skill standards because the recognition signals to employers that the colleges’ graduates have been prepared with the skills and knowledge specified by industry in the standards. The Council’s FY 2018 strategies to address this mandate include searching for new and updated national industry standards for conditional recognition; storing and maintaining the standards in the website repository; and promoting program recognition to community and technical colleges.
Mandate 2 The second mandate refers to recognition of standards developed by industry groups for “industries and occupations in which standards have not been established or adopted.” As indicated in the Council’s development guidelines, these standards, which are developed in Texas by a Texas industry group, are designated as recognized. The scope of the Texas skill standards system, as defined by the legislature, encompasses “major skilled sub‐baccalaureate occupations with strong employment and earnings opportunities.” The Council uses a labor market information (LMI) model to identify the occupations that fit these criteria. In FY 2018, the Council will use the LMI model to generate a list of relevant occupations from which to consider skill standards for recognition; provide technical assistance to industry groups that want to develop new, or review and update existing, skill standards for recognition; and maintain the standards on the website.
Mandate 3 This mandate involves two elements: review and recognize standards developed by other states and nations, and enter into agreements for mutual recognition of standards between Texas and those other states and nations. In FY 2018, the Council will continue its initiative to increase the use of industry‐based certifications, which are similar to skill standards, as they contain skills and knowledge required for competent job performance. Certifications may be nationally recognized. Thus, the promotion of industry‐based certification meets the intent of this mandate. In addition, the Council will search for standards from other states and nations for recognition.
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Mandate 4 This mandate, to promote the use of standards and credentials among employers, is addressed with the Council’s program recognition policy, credential seal strategy, and the Texas skill standards website. Recognized programs are posted to the industry groups section of the website, where they are displayed prominently with a message to employers. That message explains the significance of the designation and suggests that employers consider the recognized programs first in their recruitment efforts for qualified applicants. In addition, a gold‐embossed seal on the credentials of all recognized programs’ graduates is the visible symbol for employers that those graduates have been prepared with the skills and knowledge required by industry in the standards. In FY 2018, the Council will facilitate program recognition with community and technical colleges; process renewal applications of colleges with program recognitions scheduled to expire; continue to implement the credential seal strategy with new and existing recognized programs; and post recognized programs to the Texas skill standards website.
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Texas Workforce Investment Council
System Partners
Economic Development and Tourism Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Texas Department of Criminal Justice Texas Juvenile Justice Department Texas Education Agency Texas Veterans Commission
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Texas Workforce Commission
Members Representing
Wes Jurey (Chair), Arlington Business and Industry Sharla Hotchkiss (Vice Chair), Midland Community-Based Organizations Mark Barberena, Fort Worth Labor Robert Cross, Houston Labor Mark Dunn, Lufkin Business and Industry Carmen Olivas Graham, El Paso Education Thomas Halbouty, Southlake Business and Industry Richard Hatfield, Austin Labor Robert Hawkins, Bellmead Labor Larry Jeffus, Garland Education Paul Jones, Austin Labor Richard Rhodes, Austin Education Joyce Delores Taylor, Houston Business and Industry Mike Morath, Austin Texas Education Agency Raymund Paredes, Austin Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Charles Smith, Austin Texas Health and Human Services Commission Larry Temple, Austin Texas Workforce Commission Bryan Daniel, Austin Office of the Governor, Economic Development
and Tourism