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The primary federal workforce development legislation to bring about increased coordination among federal workforce development and related programs.
What is WIOA (Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act)?
This Title under WIOA has two (2) statewide providers: Vocational Rehabilitation Services and the Iowa Department for the Blind.
What is Title IV?
The number of Primary Indicators of Performance which apply to WIOA Title II.
What are 5 Primary Indicators of Performance?
A student who is in the process of acquiring English proficiency and has a first language other than English or in addition to English.
What is an English Language Learner?
The year that the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) was signed into law.
What is 2014?
The data platform used by AEL providers to report and collect data uses for annual reporting.
What is TE (TOPSpro Enterprise)?
Named after two (2) New York Senators, this Title Under WIOA establishes a nationwide system of public employment offices, known as the Employment Service.
What is Title III (Robert F. Wagner and Theodore A. Peyser)?
Can be demonstrated by the documented achievement of at least one educational functioning level of a participant who is receiving instruction below the postsecondary education level.
What is a Measurable Skill Gain?
The minimum age to enroll in Title II.
What is at least 16 years of age?
The name of the President who signed WIOA into law?
Who is Barack Obama?
Offices that provide a full array of employment and training related services for workers, youth and businesses. These locations include the mandatory Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) partners on-site.
What are AJCs (American Job Centers)?
This Title under WIOA has services specifically for 3 different populations including youth who are Basic Skills Deficient (BSD)
What is Title I?
When a participant who has attained a secondary school diploma or its recognized equivalent and is also employed or is enrolled in an education or training program leading to a recognized postsecondary credential within one year after exit from the program.
What is a Credential Attainment?
Activities that are of sufficient intensity and quality, to make sustainable improvements in the economic prospects for a family and that better enable parents or family members to support their children’s learning needs.
What is Family Literacy?
Under WIOA, this the number of Core Titles which provide services to individuals and/or businesses.
What are the 4 Titles of WIOA?
A measurement interval that begins when a person becomes eligible for AEL and ends when they haven't received services for 90 days.
What is a POP (period of participation)?
This Title under WIOA offers Pre-Employment Transition Services known as Pre-ETS which include Job Exploration Counseling, Work-Based Learning Experiences, Counseling on Opportunities, Workplace Readiness Training and Instruction in Self-Advocacy
What is Title IV?
The two (2) quarters which reflect the percentage of participants who are in unsubsidized employment after exit from the program also known as the Entered Employment Rates.
What are the 2nd and 4th quarters?
Provided to English language learners who are adults, including professionals with degrees and credentials in their native countries, that enables such adults to achieve competency in the English language and acquire the basic and more advanced skills needed to function effectively as parents, workers, and citizens in the United States. Includes instruction in literacy and English language acquisition and instruction on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship and civic participation, and may include workforce training.
What is Integrated English Literacy and Civics Education (IELCE)?
A federal law that establishes a nationwide system of public employment offices, known as the Employment Service under WIOA. It is more commonly know as Title III.
What is the Wagner-Peyser Act of 1933?
This subset of the Federal Department of Education administers and coordinates programs that are related to adult education and literacy, career and technical education, and community colleges.
What is OCTAE (Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education)
Under this Title of WIOA, providers are selected by the Local Workforce Development Boards.
What is Title I?
This Performance Measure that does NOT apply to WIOA Title II.
What is Effectiveness Serving Employers?
The two (2) requirements to test for the HiSET in the state of Iowa.
What are a qualifying score on an Official Practice Test (OPTs) and valid ID?
The two branches of the federal government that have oversight over WIOA.
What are the Department of Education and the Department of Labor?