Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006. Report to Congress on State Performance, Program Year 2010-11
Author: Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) (ED), Division of Academic and Technical Education (DATE)
Date: 2014-04-00
Type: Reports - Descriptive
Subjects: Educational Legislation,Vocational Education,Federal Legislation,Accountability,Secondary School Students,State Standards,Job Skills,Educational Attainment,Graduation Rate,Postsecondary Education,Job Training,Employment Level,Military Service,Apprenticeships,Nontraditional Occupations,Educational Certificates,Academic Degrees,Racial Differences,Ethnicity,Gender Differences,Students with Disabilities,Economically Disadvantaged,Foster Care,One Parent Family,Pregnancy,Females,Heads of Households,Limited English Speaking,Immigrants,Enrollment,Remedial Instruction,Grade Point Average,Performance,Academic Persistence

The &quot;Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006&quot; (&quot;Perkins IV&quot;) requires states to report to the Department of Education each year on their progress in achieving their adjusted performance levels--negotiated with and approved by the Department--on the core indicators of performance (core indicators) described in Sec. 113(b)(2)(A) and (B) of &quot;Perkins IV.&quot; This report is the Department's fourth annual report to Congress under &quot;Perkins IV.&quot; It presents data that states submitted to the Department for PY 2010-11. For PY 2010-11, each state, operating under the third year of its five-year plan pursuant to Sec. 122(a)(1) of &quot;Perkins IV,&quot; was also required by the secretary to report the following, as instructed in the Consolidated Annual Report (CAR) for the &quot;Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006&quot; for PY 2010-11: (1) Enrollment data for career and technical education (CTE) participants in CTE programs, including disaggregated data for CTE students by gender, race/ethnicity, and special population and other student categories; (2) Enrollment data for CTE concentrators in CTE programs, including disaggregated data for CTE students by gender, educational level, and the career clusters recognized by the Department; (3) Enrollment data for CTE participants in tech prep programs funded under Title II of &quot;Perkins IV,&quot; including disaggregated data for CTE students by gender, race/ethnicity, and special population and other student categories, and participation in a tech prep program if the state implemented such a program under &quot;Perkins IV,&quot; Title II, tech prep; and (4) Performance data for CTE concentrators on the &quot;Perkins IV&quot; Sec. 113(b)(2)(A) and (B) core indicators. This report to Congress contains four sections. The introduction section describes the &quot;Perkins IV&quot; accountability requirements and describes efforts by the Department to help states establish valid and reliable measures, and rigorous performance levels for the &quot;Perkins IV&quot; Sec. 113(b) core indicators. The state performance data section discusses states' progress in meeting their performance levels for the required &quot;Perkins IV&quot; Sec. 113(b) core indicators for PY 2010-11. The data quality section discusses issues pertaining to the validity, quality, and comparability of states' &quot;Perkins IV&quot; performance data. The final section offers conclusions regarding the implementation of CTE under &quot;Perkins IV.&quot; Individual state data profiles are provided in Appendix B of this report. [For the 2009-10 report, see ED610105.]