Example of Current Perkins Measures
5S1: Placement
Numerator: Number of status-known CTE concentrators who left
secondary education the previous year and, in the second (2nd)
quarter following the program year in which they left secondary
education, were enrolled in postsecondary education or advanced
training, in military service or employed.
Denominator: Number of status-known CTE concentrators who
left secondary education the previous year.
Example of Current Perkins Measures
4P1: Employment
Employment is a measure of the percentage of graduates who are employed
6 months after graduation.
Numerator: Number of CTE completers who were employed during the
September‐December time period following graduation.
Denominator: Number of CTE completers in the reporting year.
GAO Report on Education, Employment Data
 26 states have the capacity to link individual
postsecondary student records with state-level
employment data, according to a September 2010 GAO
Report
 GAO offers several recommendations for expanding
data collection efforts, including the use of state-tostate data sharing agreements and the expansion of
national postsecondary educational surveys.
 GAO also recommends that the Secretary of Education
develop guidance on how states can share data while
complying with FERPA requirements.
Capacity to Link Data is Increasing
 Policymakers are becoming increasingly aware of the importance
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of connecting education, workforce development, and
employment data.
The U.S. Department of Labor issued $12.2 million in Workforce
Data Quality Initiative grants to support the development and
implementation of statewide or multistate longitudinal
workforce data systems.
An additional $13.75 million for WDQI grants as part of the Fiscal
Year 2011 federal budget request.
Maryland was one of 13 states to receive a WDQI grant.
Department of Education has also provided significant funding
to support data collection, awarding nearly $250 million in State
Longitudinal Data Systems grants to 20 state education
departments in May 2010.
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Preschool
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4-Yr University
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K-12
Remedial
Community
College
Community
RemedialCollege
GED
WORKFORCE (Administrative Data Sources):
Registered Apprenticeships
WIA
WIA-Funded Training
Title I
Trade Adjustment
& II
UI Wage Records
UI
Benefits
(90% + Coverage)
Job Service
Assistance
Source: The Jacob France Institute, University of Baltimore (May 2010).
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• OPM
• DOD
• USPS
TRADE (Regional Employment)
FEDES (Federal Employment)
The Regional Area Data Exchange (TRADE)
 The TRADE process is a voluntary quarterly regional
exchange of UI wage record extract information
among DC, MD, NJ, OH, PA, VA and WV
 MOUs have been negotiated and renewed among
the state workforce agencies that define the process
and authorized uses of exchanged data
 Confidentiality is the #1 priority for sustaining this
multi-state capability
The Federal Employment Data Exchange System:
A comprehensive data exchange system
structured to meet states’ data needs for
federal reporting as well as state level reporting
and evaluation, capable of exchanging all
available federal employment data.
Participating Federal Agencies
 Office of Personnel
Management
 Department of Defense,
Defense Manpower Data
Center
 United States Postal
Service
JFI Partnerships with Maryland
State Agencies and ‘Others’
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MD Department of Labor Licensing and Regulation (DLLR)
MD Department of Human Resources (DHR)
MD State Department of Education (MSDE)
MD Higher Education Commission (MHEC)
University System of Maryland (USM)
MD Association of Community Colleges (MACC)
MD Department of Business and Economic Development
(DBED)
JFI Partnerships with Maryland
State Agencies and ‘Others’
(Continued)
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MD Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH)
MD Department of Disabilities (DoD)
MD local (county) public school districts
MD county economic development authorities
MD local Workforce Investment Boards
Authorized third-party requests
Some Concrete Research Examples
 Maryland Community Colleges
 University System of Maryland
 Maryland Public Schools
Maryland Association of Community
Colleges-JFI Partnership
 JFI partners with and through the MACC to
assist each of the State’s public community
colleges to calculate a State-mandated
performance indicator
Maryland Association of Community
Colleges-JFI Partnership
Source: The Jacob France Institute
Maryland Public School District and
Community College-JFI Partnership
Source: The Jacob France Institute
University of Maryland System/JFI Partnership:
Teacher Retention Study
University of Maryland System/JFI Partnership:
Teacher Retention Study
MSDE/JFI Partnership: Study of Maryland Public
High School Graduates and Non-Graduates (2002)
MSDE-DLLR-JFI Interagency Agreement
 Career and Technology Education
 Vocational Rehabilitation
 Adult Education
 Correctional Education
Additional Data Boosted
Maryland’s Perkins Measures
 The inclusion of regional TRADE data resulted in an
additional 9% of students with 4P1 employment
matches .
 The inclusion of federal FEDES data resulted in an
additional 2.6% of students with 4P1 employment
matches.
 Matches were also done with state apprenticeship data.
Questions and Answers
Alicia Freeman
Career & Technical Education , Office of the State Superintendent of Education,
Washington, D.C.
(202) 741-5526
Email: alicia.freeman@dc.gov
Treva Stack
The Jacob France Institute
University of Baltimore
(410)837-4685
Email: tstack@ubalt.edu
David Stevens
The Jacob France Institute
University of Baltimore
(410)837-4729
Email: dstevens@ubalt.edu