From daemon Mon Jun 12 10:10 EDT 1995 Received: from dns1.uga.edu (dns1.uga.edu [128.192.1.9]) by town.hall.org (8.6.12/941123.08ccg) with ESMTP id KAA00690 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 10:05:20 -0400 Received: from moe.coe.uga.edu (moe.coe.uga.edu [128.192.22.3]) by dns1.uga.edu (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id KAA25684 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 10:07:34 -0400 Received: (from bgohdes@localhost) by moe.coe.uga.edu (8.6.10/8.6.10) id KAA20240; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 10:07:32 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 10:07:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Gohdes To: jec@town.hall.org Subject: Skill Standards Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 1110 Status: RO Ladies and Gentlemen of the Joint Committee, I am a Program Specialist working for the Occupational Research Group at the University of Georgia and I am currently working under a contract with the Georgia Department of Education to develop skill standards for five occupational clusters identified by the Department. My question to the committee is this: Georgia will complete the development of our State skill standards prior to completion of the Federal standards project. We anticipate that there will be differences in organization and content between the two. Can you provide some guidance on how state and federal standards will be compared or perhaps coordinated? For example, which jurisdiction would have preference for issuance of a certificate of compliance? What mechanism will be developed for insuring transferability of a certificate from state to state? How do we avoid conflict between state and federal standards? Thank you for your consideration of these questions. Bill Gohdes Program Specialist Occupational Research Group University of Georgia bgohdes@moe.coe.uga.edu