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Jun 7, 2012
ETA Emphasizes the Importance of Accurate Reporting on Industry-Recognized Credentials within WIA, Competitively Awarded Job Training Grants, Job Corps, Registered Apprenticeship, Trade Adjustment Assistance, and YouthBuild
The Employment and Training Administration has issued Training and Employment Notice (TEN) 49-11.
This TEN reinforces for the public workforce system the importance of accurate and grantee reporting on attainment of industry-recognized credentials.
Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis identified credential attainment as a High Priority Performance Goal in response to President Barack Obama’s call for the United States to have “the best educated, most competitive workforce in the world” by leading in the percentage of individuals with postsecondary degrees and/or industry-recognized credentials by 2020.
The original goal sought to increase the number of program participants who received training and attained a credential by 10 percent, or a target of 261,000, by June 30, 2012. That goal has been achieved; 343,509 participants in workforce programs attained a credential as of December 31, 2011. However, credential attainment is still one of the Secretary’s high priority goals. Therefore, the Department of Labor has revised its performance goal and will work with states and local areas to increase the percent of program exiters that received training who earn industry-recognized credentials by 10 percent, by September 30, 2013. States will play an increasingly important role by providing full and accurate credential reporting.
The TEN addresses the reporting on credential attainment within these programs:
- WIA Programs
- Competitively Awarded Job Training Grants
- Job Corps
- Registered Apprenticeship
- Trade Adjustment Assistance
- Youth Build
Also see:
TEGL 17-09, Quarterly Submission of Workforce Investment Act Standardized Record Data (WIASRD)
Trade Adjustment Assistance Extension Act of 2011, Section 239(j)
