Perkins Vocational and Technical Education

Education agencies that receive Perkins funds from the postsecondary allocation formula are aware of their ultimate responsibilities for entering into an MOU with local workforce service areas

Education agencies that receive Perkins funds from the postsecondary allocation formula are aware of their ultimate responsibilities for entering into an MOU with Local Workforce Investment Boards. They have been encouraged to initiate contact with Local Workforce Investment Boards. This responsibility was communicated through SED program memoranda in the Fall of 1999 and in the Winter of 2000. Additionally, the Guidelines issued in the Winter of 2000 concerning the use of postsecondary Perkins funds for program year July 2000 through June 2000, require recipients to report the status of their agreements with Local Workforce Investment Boards. This information, to be submitted in May as part of the overall Perkins planning and funding application, will apprise SED of the status of Perkins partners in the local workforce development system.

Early indications are that some Perkins recipients already are formally involved on the local board level, while other Perkins recipients have not been successful in reaching the contact person for the local workforce service area. It is probable that since local partners must meet to develop plans and then submit these plans for State approval, that any in depth discussion of cost sharing will not be discussed until later. Since many of the postsecondary Perkins recipients are partly supported by county funds, their ultimate participation in cost sharing will occur.

There are no current plans in SED to issue a separate 'request for proposal' to postsecondary Perkins recipients concerning cost coverage in local workforce service areas.