Brenda Dann-Messier, Assistant Secretary of Education at the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, at the CASAS Summer Institute - 6 points that OVAE is advocating for WIA reauthorization (and no, we don't know when it will happen):
1. Provide incentives to spur innovation, including increasing the effective use of technology and distance learning.
2. Professionalize our field in order to have highly qualified teachers and leaders. (In California we have credential qualifications but some states don't.)
3. Prepare students for 21st century jobs by strengthening our ties to post secondary education and the workforce, providing and linking to career pathways, strengthening ties to the one-stops, and developing standards for college readiness.
4. Maintain EL Civics and expand it to serve immigrant professionals. The White House now has a working group on "immigrant innovation," and our goals fit with theirs.
5. Increase funding of professional development from 12.5 to 15% in order to support staff to move in these new directions.
6. Strengthen correctional education and re-entry programs by requiring at least 10% of funds to be spent on corrections.
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