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7/7/2008
Michigan is the only state in the top ten states that reports more Gold certificates than Bronze certificates. The Governor has been saying all along that Michigan has a more highly skilled workforce. Our data indicates she is right. Further, Michigan students scored well on the Reading for Information (RI) and Applied Math (AM) WorkKeys tests on the MME last year. 64% Scored 5 and above on RI and 60% scored 5 and above on AM.
Michigan Works! Association reported in the Spring Newsline that the Road Construction Apprenticeship Program will include a Gold National Career Readiness Certificate in the set of credentials earned by each graduate. View details at the bottom of page 8 of Newsline.
Data as of June 30th has been added to the website driving our total to 34,377. A number of schools have still not been reported, so we expect the total to continue to rise. We noticed today that Michigan is the only state with more Gold than Bronze certificates. This puts us, on average, slightly on the plus side of Silver. View the details in the announcements section. 7/1/2008
Data from high school certificates sponsored largely by the WIRED regions has been added to the website in Chart 1 - Certificates. This drives our total to 32,551. A number of counties are still not reported, so we expect the total to continue to rise. The current breakdown is: 7,955 (24.4%) Gold, 16,851 (51.8%) Silver, and 7,745 (23.8%) Bronze. Thanks to all of the schools that participated.
The Council for Labor and Economic Growth unanimously approved the MI NCRC Implementation Plan in their June 9th meeting. The MI NCRC will be delivered through the Michigan Works! system in partnership with the K-12 educational system, community colleges, economic development agencies, employers, business associations, and other local partners.
School Aid Senate Bill 1107 passed the Senate on March 26th and the House on June 11th. This bill adds the third WorkKeys test, Locating Infomation, to the Michigan Merit Exam beginning March 2009. Review item #26 in the Summary or follow the above link to the Michigan Legislature page. Every high school student in Michigan will have the opportunity to earn an NCRC next year. Michigan is the first state to provide all students with two tickets to the future: a set of ACT college readiness scores, and a National Career Readiness Certificate. Michigan has leaped ahead of other states by being the first state to have a common skills credential in use in both the public school system and the workforce development system. This is an unprecedented level of alignment between high schools and workforce development agencies. 5/12/2008
Data for the April monthly report is all in with a total of 21,728 certificates earned. St. Clair County Technical Education Center reported 250 certificates earned, Mid-Michgan reported 5,396 earned (preliminary data), and West Michigan WIRED reported increases in totals. We retain our overall rank of #4 and move up to #7 in terms of certificates per capita. 5/5/2008
We added two new areas to our home page to highlight KeyTrain and skill building. In the right column we added Our Favorites from KeyTrain to list KeyTrain publications. At the bottom of the center column we added Skill Building Tools and Results to highlight methods and best practices for using KeyTrain to build skills. We also added a link to the KeyTrain website to make it easier to get more information. 5/3/2008
We added a new KeyTrain folder to the public documents section of the website. This contains a few of the new flyers from KeyTrain distributed at the conference.
Over 35 of us from Michigan attended the largest ever National WorkKeys Conference in Indianapolis last week. The conference was best characterized by comments like "fantastic conference" from rookies, and "best conference ever" from those who have attened before. Complements to the ACT team! |
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