Located in:
- III. Operational Planning Elements
The Unified or Combined State Plan must include an Operational Planning Elements section that supports the State’s strategy and the system-wide vision described in Section II(c) above. Unless otherwise noted, all Operational Planning Elements apply to Combined State Plan partner programs included in the plan as well as to core programs. This section must include—
- b. State Operating Systems and Policies
The Unified or Combined State Plan must include a description of the State operating systems and policies that will support the implementation of the State strategy described in section II Strategic Elements. This includes—
- b. State Operating Systems and Policies
III. b. 6. B. Assessment of Participants’ Post-program Success
Describe how lead State agencies will use the workforce development system to assess the progress of participants who are exiting from core programs in entering, persisting in, and completing postsecondary education, or entering or remaining in employment. States may choose to set additional indicators of performance.
Current Narrative:
Missouri will use the workforce development system to assess the exiters from its core programs using direct results or proxy determinations depending upon the core program. The data for entering, persisting in and completing postsecondary education, or entering or remaining in employment will be the factors produced for each core program. Missouri will not set additional indicators.
Each core program and combined state plan partner uses data matching or self-reported information to determine employment performance. Exiting participants are matched for employment using Unemployment Insurance wage credits or the data system is updated with self-reported data for second and fourth quarter employment.
Secondary and postsecondary attainment on exited participants are matched with the High School Equivalency (HSE) records, high school diploma records, postsecondary records available from the Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development, and the National Student Clearinghouse or other appropriate documentation must be produced by the participant.
The implementation in Missouri also has the potential to benefit from having direct access to post-program data that could be achieved by the use of Missouri’s State Longitudinal Data System (SLDS). The partners have the option of participating in monthly SLDS meetings about common programs, research and data sharing needs and grant projects surrounding this research. The data warehouse is operated under the use of a governance agreement and a Memorandum of Understanding (Data Sharing Agreement). This system is available for use in research projects and agency staff have proposed moving forward with a pilot project to support the learning and opportunities to be gained from examining and developing recommendations based on this post-program data.