Formerly the Missouri Postsecondary Advising Initiative (MPAI)

About the Missouri Career Advising Initiative (MCAI) and rootEd Alliance

The Missouri Career Advising Initiative ensures all high school students, particularly those in rural communities, have an advisor exclusively focused on helping them achieve success following graduation.

The Missouri Purple Star school designation is awarded to military-friendly local education agencies (LEAs) that have demonstrated a major commitment to students and families connected to our nation’s military. Schools that earn the designation receive a special Purple Star logo to display onsite and on their website. DESE honored the first cohort of schools earning this designation in fall 2022.

Monitoring Documents

Self-Assessment Packet

1. Self-Assessment Tool

2. Worksheet:  Fiscal Guidance

3. Worksheet:  Program Performance Guidance

College and Career Readiness Standards

The College and Career Readiness Standards provide a framework for Missouri AEL programs to address those skills most critical for college and career readiness and important to adult students. The integration of these standards into adult education programs addresses our goal of providing all adult education students with the opportunity to be prepared for post-secondary training without the need for remediation.