STW is required of districts in WA e:\doc\web\98\04\wastw.txt From: "Roxanne Sitler" To: Subject: Fw: [Fwd: Re: School To Work] Date sent: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 18:16:51 -0800 Arthur - FYI This is a part of the Washington's federal STWOA grant... The 1995 STW Implementation grant, "Working and Learning Together: Creating Washington's Comprehensive School-To-Work Transition System" states the following on pages 27- 28... Excerpts... Page 28: "Washington's plan to build a seamless and fully integrated education and training system for young people is based upon three major initiatives: The state's Education Reform Act of 1993 (ESHB1209), The Goals 2000 Educate America Act, and our STW Opportunities System. As we work toward the goal of a unified, statewide STW system, we will also ensure that STW goals are consistent with goals 2000 and our state's school reform goals. The strengths of our state efforts integrating these three frameworks include: a performance-based education system; multiple, flexible educational pathways for ALL secondary students based upon their career interests. Page 27 "Our state plan will utilize state and STWOA (federal) funds for all the state's school districts to develop STW projects. STW initiative will be funded on a school district basis for a maximum of two year cycle, with school districts receiving either state or federal funding as a pass-through from OSPI. After the maximum two year period, school districts will be required to participate in STW partnerships that will be coordinated on a regional basis with federal and state STW funding administered by the designated regional entity. School districts receiving grants during the first two years of the STWOA (federal) will be required to participate fully in the regional STW effort as the system moves into the regional approach. Whether they receive money directly from OSPI or through a regional entity, school districts will work to develop partnerships and collaborations...." There is a table on page 27 which shows the transition from district funded STW to Regional funded STW. By year 5 of the grant, 0 districts would have STW funded by school districts and 296 would be funded by regions. What exactly do people understand these regional entities to be? The regional sub-structure has already been developed by the Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board. Districts will be REQUIRED to participate in STW partnerships. This doesn't sound very voluntary to me. All this fits with our state's One Stop Career Center System grant as well. Roxanne