IPATS

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) is designed to help job seekers access employment, education, training, and support services to succeed in the labor market and to match employers with the skilled workers they need to compete in the global economy. WIOA establishes performance accountability indicators and performance reporting requirements to assess the effectiveness of States and local areas in achieving positive outcomes for individuals served by the workforce development system’s six core programs. WIOA provides a historic opportunity to align performance-related definitions, streamline performance indicators, integrate reporting, and ensure comparable data collection and reporting across all six of these core programs, while also implementing program-specific requirements related to data collection and reporting.

WIOA ensures that federal investments in employment and training programs are evidence-based and data-driven, and accountable to participants and taxpayers.

• Core programs are required to report on common performance indicators that provide key employment information, such as the employment rate of participants after exiting the program, their median wages, whether they attained a credential, and their measurable skill gains.
• Following submission of the annual performance reports, states are required to submit an Annual Statewide Performance Report Narrative, further detailing its ability to meet targeted goals and expected outcomes as outlined within the Unified or Combined State Plan. • Core programs must measure the effectiveness of services to employers for the first time.
• The United States Departments of Labor (DOL) and Education (ED), with input from stakeholders, will establish a common performance accountability system for the core programs.
• Negotiated levels of performance for the common indicators will be adjusted based on a statistical adjustment model (SAM) that takes into account economic conditions and participant characteristics.
• Performance reports for states, local areas, and eligible training providers will be publicly available.
• Programs will be evaluated by independent third parties at least every four years.

A Federal Negotiation Process is utilized to Establish Targets for each Performance Measure and the Federal Performance Reporting Requirements for each WIOA title.