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2 Year Modification

Plan: Minnesota PYs 2018-2019
Combined Plan C

Section: Perkins Career and Technical Education Program

Narrative: a. 1. D.

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Located in:
  • Career and Technical Education Programs Authorized Under the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006
    • a. Planning, Coordination, and Collaboration Prior to State Plan Submission

      As noted above, in addition to entering your Perkins State Plan and any revisions for the upcoming year, you must submit a request to extend your Perkins State Plan using the link to the Perkins State Plan Portal below. You are not required to hold separate hearings for the Perkins portion of your WIOA Combined State Plan unless your State determines that there is a “significant and relevant” change in: (1) the information or assurances in the Perkins plan; (2) the administration or operation of the Perkins plan; or (3) the organization, policies, or operations of the State agency that received the grant, if the change materially affects the information or assurances in the Perkins plan. See Question A.12 in the Department’s Perkins IV Non-Regulatory Guidance Q&A -Version 4.0, released April 24, 2015. Accordingly, if your State determines that no significant or relevant change is being made, you are not required to provide or revise this Section I, Planning, Coordination, and Collaboration Prior to State Plan Submission, unless your State chooses to do so.

a. 1. D. The State Must Develop Effective Activities and Procedures, Including Access to Information Needed to Use Such Procedures, to Allow the Individuals and Entities Listed in Item 3 Above to Participate in State and Local Decisions That Relate to Development of the State Plan. (section 122(b)(2))

View corresponding narrative from PYs 2016-2017

Current Narrative:

The list of public hearings was posted in the State Register and specific invitations to participate in the public hearings were sent to:

  • The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce
  • The Minnesota Business Partnership
  • The Minnesota AFL-CIO
  • Minnesota School Boards Association
  • Department of Labor and Industry
  • Education Minnesota
  • Minnesota’s Career and Technical Education Professional Organizations
  • Minnesota’s School and College Counselor Associations
  • The University of Minnesota Department of Work and Human Resource Education
  • PACER (Champions for Children with Disabilities)
  • Minnesota Minority Education Partnership
  • Minnesota College Access Network
  • Minnesota High Tech Association
  • Minnesota Council of Nonprofits
  • The Minnesota Parent Teacher Association (PTA)
  • The Minnesota Foundation for Student Organizations with a request that information be forwarded to state officers of all Minnesota career and technical education student organizations and all Minnesota career and technical education student organization advisors.
  • The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development with a request that information be forwarded to all community-based organizations that have linkages to the state’s workforce center system.

A summary of Task Force discussion and the State responses is included in Appendix A. The State also posted the draft State Plan on its career and technical education web site and accepted comments to the plan electronically. A summary of comments made and the State responses is listed in Appendix B.