State Strategies for Sustaining and Scaling Grades 9-14 Career Pathways

This brief from Jobs for the Future draws on early work from the Pathways to Prosperity Network to lay out policy and structural changes states should take into consideration as they build career pathways between secondary and postsecondary systems.

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State Strategies for Sustaining and Scaling Grades 9-14 Career Pathways

This brief from Jobs for the Future has three goals:

To begin an assessment of policy elements and strategies that are required for putting grades 9-14 pathways systems in place;

To highlight a selection of state efforts that can serve as models to support elements of 9-14 pathways design and rollout; and,

To describe policies that are not currently in place but would be desirable to facilitate the involvement of intermediaries, employers, and industry groups.

This paper begins with a discussion of the composition of state leadership teams and organizing structures for supporting 9-14 pathways and describes effective strategies drawn from over a dozen states within the Pathways to Prosperity Network and beyond.  The paper also includes a review of state policies that support 9-14 collaborations, including dual enrollment, CTE policy and funding. The paper identifies career counseling, work-based learning and employer engagement as elements of a career pathways system that are less developed across the country.

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