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Texas Workforce Commission approves $4.5 million to boost Texas Rising Star centralized assessments
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The Texas Workforce Commission voted to add $4.5 million in fiscal 2025 funding to the Texas Rising Star centralized assessment entity (CAE) after staff said the CAE requires more assessors and staffing to meet statewide assessment requirements.
The Texas Workforce Commission on Wednesday approved adding $4.5 million in fiscal-year 2025 statewide-initiatives funding to support Texas Rising Star (TRS) assessment services conducted by the program’s centralized assessment entity (CAE).
Commission staff said the CAE has faced workload challenges and needs additional staff to complete required initial assessments, annual monitoring visits and other assessments for child-care providers statewide.
Lisonbee Wilson of the commission’s Child Care and Early Learning Division told commissioners that state law required TWC to…
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