As part of its WIOA Game Plan for Low-Income People, CLASP is providing a series of short, action-focused memos outlining how states, local areas, advocates, and service providers can leverage opportunities to serve low-income youth and adults through state and local plans, policies and guidance, and budget choices.

This report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) addresses: 1) changes selected states plan to make in how they collect and report performance information for core programs; 2) challenges these states face related to performance reporting and how they might be addressed; and 3) whether these states have reported breaches to core program data systems and what practices they have to safeguard personal information.

The National Skills Coalition (NSC) presented this webinar on September 15, 2015 in partnership with the Commission on Adult Basic Education (COABE). The webinar addressed the current WIOA landscape and discussed opportunities for adult educators to weigh in on implementation issues in their states and localities.

This paper from RTI International outlines key considerations for implementing career pathways strategies and provides a checklist of action items that states or local communities can use to assess the status of their sustainability efforts. It draws from research on change management theory, which has produced strategies for sustaining organizational shifts, and presents lessons learned from states participating in the Advancing Career and Technical Education in State and Local Career Pathways Systems project, a three-year initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education..

This report from the U.S. Departments of Education, Transportation, and Labor indicates that there are likely to be a large number of job openings for high-skill and middle-skill workers across the transportation industry over the next 10 years. The report emphasizes the need for skills training and highlights future growth areas and employment “hot spots” by industry subsectors, occupations, career areas, and geographic areas.