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Local Workforce Boards are charged with coordinating their local plans with their state’s workforce goals. The implementation of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) created changes to the responsibilities and structure of these...

Summarizes recent research to identify current gaps in employment and training research and to make recommendations for future research processes and priorities that could better inform policymakers, practitioners, job seekers, and employers.

Discusses key steps for states to create integrated performance information, recommends eight accountability measures and performance indicators under WIA, and discusses how states may link those measures and other system indicators through a data...

Introduces the four titles of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act and describes in an easy to digest infographic how different entities are involved in the collection and reporting of core performance metrics to policymakers, program...

Presents findings from a technical assistance initiative designed to provide aid to 13 states aiming to connect their state education and training systems; offers a road map for discovering and implementing state priorities to increase...

Examines the technological infrastructure of WIOA reporting systems in 46 states through surveys and state site visits; and provides recommendations to improve the integration of data systems for workforce practitioners and policymakers.

Examines how states collect data on people completing non-degree credentials, such as registered and non-registered apprenticeships, non-credit and credit certificates, and licenses, through a 50-state scan.

Discusses the composition of three states’ workforce data systems and the states’ processes for making data available to outside stakeholders while also ensuring the confidentiality of individuals in the data systems.

Highlights findings from the evaluation of the Postsecondary Success Initiative, which sought to place disconnected youth on an educational and workforce pathway through the use of partnerships between community-based organizations and community...

Provides recommendations to the federal, state, and local agencies involved with implementing the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act about how to create a performance management system that will meet all of their needs.