Emerging Worker & Skills Subcommittees

New York State Workforce Investment Board

September 1, 2004

9:00 am-12:30 pm

State Education Department, 89 Washington Avenue, Rooms 216 A&B

Albany, NY

Work Readiness Credential: Strategic Planning For the Next Program Year

I. Agenda Overview (Subcommittee Co-Chairs)

II. National Level Project Update (Staff)

· U.S. Chamber of Commerce Update

· New State Partners in the Project

· Subject Matter Experts Convening for Assessment Development

III. Validation & Reliability (Staff)

· Credential Overview: Who is this credential for? What is this credential intended to do? What do we want to accomplish?

· Report to members on Interagency staff findings on the issues of sample size and validation of the Work Readiness Credential

IV. Franchising (Staff)

· Report to members on Interagency staff research on the array of options which need to be explored and understood to develop a delivery system for the Work Readiness Credential in New York State

· Discussion around the matrix of “key issues”

V. Wrap Up

· Setting the agenda for the September 23^rd meeting

· Meeting review (What worked? What didn’t?)