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  **HEA: State Grants 
  for Incarcerated    
  Youth Offenders**   

  **FY 2008 Program   
  Performance Plan**  

  Strategic Goal 1    

  Formula             

  HEA, 1998           
  Amendments, Title   
  VIII, Part D        

  CFDA                84.331A: Grants to States for Workplace and Community Transition
                      Training for Incarcerated Youth Offenders
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  **Program      **Contribute to the reduction of recidivism by providing
  Goal:**        incarcerated youth offenders with educational services**

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  ***Objective 1 of 1:***   *Improve the vocational and academic achievement of
                            students served through State Grants for Incarcerated
                            Youth Offenders.*

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  **Measure 1.1 of 1:**                                       
  The percentage of                                           
  students in the                                             
  facility participating                                      
  in the program                                              
  completing a                                                
  postsecondary education                                     
  certificate, associate                                      
  of arts or bachelor\'s                                      
  degree during the                                           
  program year.                                               
    (Desired direction:                                       
  increase)   1390                                            

  **Year**                **Target**       **Actual\          **Status**
                                           (or date           
                                           expected)**        

  2002                    50               54.69              Target Exceeded

  2003                    50               44.12              Did Not Meet Target

  2004                    50               50                 Target Met

  2005                    50               23.5               Did Not Meet Target

  2006                    23.5             23.51              Target Exceeded

  2007                    25.5             38.49              Target Exceeded

  2008                    26.5             Undefined          Pending

  2009                    27.5             Undefined          Pending

  2010                    28.5             Undefined          Pending

  2011                    29.5             Undefined          Pending
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**Source**. The U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational and
Adult Education, State Grants for Incarcerated Youth Offenders Program,
receives annual performance reports from grantees that includes this
data.

**Frequency of Data Collection**. Annual

**Data Quality**. States provide a count of participants and of program
completers. The completers can have received degrees (BA or AA) or have
completed a post secondary certificate program. Most post secondary
certificate programs are occupational, and most often represent
completion of a one-year course sequence. However, grantees have
sometimes claimed certificate completions for less intensive programs of
study. Program staff attempts to assure that there is consistency in
this reporting, but concerns remain that there might be less substantial
outcomes included in the counts provided by the States. Also, these
programs are ongoing programs, with enrollees overlapping performance
periods. There is not a simple relationship between annual enrollment
and annual completions.