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Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education, 2025
This report shows how Kentucky and its campuses are faring on key performance indicators associated with the statewide strategic agenda for postsecondary education. Additionally, the report highlights activities the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) is leading to advance their key priorities: (1) affordability; (2) transitions; (3)…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Strategic Planning, Student Costs, Transitional Programs
Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education, 2024
This report shows how Kentucky and its campuses are faring on key performance indicators associated with the statewide strategic agenda for postsecondary education. Additionally, the report highlights activities the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) is leading to advance their key priorities: (1) affordability; (2) transitions; (3)…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Strategic Planning, Student Costs, Transitional Programs
Pechota, Damion; Macdonald, Heidi; Dachelet, Karole; Keily, Tom – Education Commission of the States, 2019
A career pathway system is made up of multiple programs that span educational institutions, workforce entities and support service partners. These systems are oriented around a shared understanding of the needs of industries. Career pathway systems are one of many policy models states use to help connect education and workforce in the K-12,…
Descriptors: State Policy, Models, Education Work Relationship, Comparative Analysis
Montana Office of Public Instruction, 2016
In today's economy, a quality public education is the key to economic prosperity for young people. When Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau took office in 2009, there were 2,272 public school students who dropped out of school, and Montana had a dropout rate of five percent. For a state with a school population as small as Montana,…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, Dropouts
West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission, 2017
West Virginia Code §18B-1D-8 statutorily mandates the West Virginia Higher Education Report Card. This annual accountability report provides year-end higher education statistics for both of the state's higher education systems, the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission (Commission) and West Virginia Council for Community and Technical…
Descriptors: Higher Education, High School Graduates, Student Financial Aid, Public Colleges
West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission, 2016
West Virginia Code §18B-1D-8 statutorily mandates the West Virginia Higher Education Report Card (Report Card). This annual accountability report provides year-end higher education statistics for both of the state's higher education systems, the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission (Commission) and West Virginia Council for Community…
Descriptors: Higher Education, High School Graduates, Student Financial Aid, Public Colleges
Mulqueen, Nan, Ed. – Maryland State Department of Education, 2008
Maryland redesigned its CTE (career and technical education) program a dozen years ago to prepare students for the 21st Century's global economy and its rapidly changing workforce needs. With 350 business and industry representatives, the state created a program whose emphasis is problem-solving and critical thinking, rather than narrow,…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Education Work Relationship, Vocational Education, State Programs
Bosworth, Brian – Complete College America, 2010
Since President Obama took office, he has repeatedly called for the United States to significantly improve its postsecondary education performance. One goal in particular has gained wide attention: the President's declaration that in an ever more competitive global marketplace, the United States must once again lead the world in college…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Associate Degrees, Community Colleges, Educational Certificates
Tu, Jho-Ju; And Others – 1992
Data from the "Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the Education of the Disabled Act" were analyzed to determine patterns of services to disabled youths over a 4-year period by state, age, and type of disabling condition. Using the data for high school students and the 3 years immediately after high school, the study…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Educational Trends
Iowa State Dept. of Education, Des Moines. Bureau of Technical and Vocational Education. – 1997
This report provides a review and summary of the activities of vocational education programs in Iowa in Fiscal Year 1995-96, especially in regard to the use of federal funds under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act. Funds distributed through the act were awarded in Iowa in the following titles: Title…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Education, Raleigh. – 1997
In North Carolina, work force development education (WDE) begins in grade 6 with exploratory courses and leads to specialized classroom instruction in grades 11 and 12. Since 1992-1993, North Carolina's WDE programs have been evaluated with respect to eight long-range performance standards. Only in the case of standard 1 (all students will have…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Legislation, Educational Objectives, Educational Trends
Brazeau, Karen; And Others – 1990
The four sections of this report use text, graphs, and tables to present the status of Oregon programs providing special education, compensatory education, student services, early childhood education, and special projects. The first section, on special education, provides the mission statement and the state's goals for special education and then…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Ancillary School Services, Compensatory Education, Disabilities
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. Div. of Vocational and Adult Education. – 1998
This report documents the work done in Fiscal Year 1998 by the Ohio Department of Education, Division of Vocational and Adult Education, to address two major priorities as authorized by the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act of 1990: (1) single parents, displaced homemakers, and single pregnant women; and (2)…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Displaced Homemakers, Education Work Relationship
Washington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board, Olympia. – 2001
The third biennial outcome evaluation of the state of Washington's workforce development system analyzed the results of nine of the state's largest workforce development programs plus employer-provided training for participants who left programs from July 1, 1997 to June 30, 1998. For reporting results, the nine programs were grouped into three…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Education Work Relationship, Employer Attitudes, Employment
Hershey, Alan M.; Silverberg, Marsha K.; Haimson, Joshua; Hudis, Paula; Jackson, Russell – 1999
A comprehensive evaluation of state and local progress in implementing school-to-work (STW) programs focused on the following: whether states and local partnerships have created coherent STW systems of connected, sustainable practices and programs; how STW systems have changed students' experiences at the elementary, secondary, and postsecondary…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Case Studies, Cooperative Planning