State standards crosswalks
State career standards, criterion by criterion: 77 of 248 matched across 6 states, 171 not claimed.
For each state we publish, we take that state's own middle-grades career standard and match every criterion in it one at a time — 25 evidenced directly by something the platform produces, 52 supported by a named result plus teacher-led classroom work, and 171 we make no claim on. The claimed and unclaimed rows sit in the same table at the same weight, and the two claimed counts are never added into one number.
In Brief
Every state writes its own career standard for the middle grades, and no two number them the same way — some publish citable criterion codes, some hang unnumbered bullets off a strand, one publishes a single-page graphic. A vendor claim of "aligned to state standards" survives that variety only because nobody checks it line by line. These pages are the line-by-line check, published rather than promised on request.
6 states so far, 248 criteria between them. 25 are evidenced directly by an artefact the platform produces; 52 more are supported by a named assessment result with teacher-led classroom work; on the remaining 171 we make no claim at all. 20 distinct JobCannon instruments sit behind the 77 claims, and every one of them can be assigned to a student from a school account — a citation to something a school cannot actually give a student is not evidence of anything.
The counts are not comparable between states and the pages say so: 248 criteria across 6 documents means 6 different ideas of what one criterion is. Read a state's own page against a state's own document; a ratio from one state predicts nothing about another.
The same three rules on every page
Written once, applied per state, and visible in the table rather than described in prose.
The 20 instruments behind the 77 claims
Every instrument cited on any crosswalk is assignable to a student from a school account — the citation and the thing a school can actually do are the same list.
Compared to other district career-readiness contracts
Two district contracts as published in board papers — one covering a single school year, one a five-year agreement — beside our per-student rate for one academic year
What these crosswalks are — and what they are not
Every state we have read, and what we found
- Arizona — Career Exploration and Introduction to Early CTE (grades 6-8): 39 criteria — 11 evidenced directly, 18 supported via lesson plan, 10 not claimed.
- Texas — Chapter 127. Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Career Development and Career and Technical Education (grades 7-8): 36 criteria — 2 evidenced directly, 4 supported via lesson plan, 30 not claimed.
- California — California Career Technical Education Model Curriculum Standards, Grades Seven Through Twelve (grades 7-12): 49 criteria — 0 evidenced directly, 8 supported via lesson plan, 41 not claimed.
- Utah — Strands and Standards: College and Career Awareness (grades 7-8): 22 criteria — 1 evidenced directly, 4 supported via lesson plan, 17 not claimed.
- Illinois — Illinois PaCE (Postsecondary and Career Expectations) Framework (grades 6-8): 31 criteria — 6 evidenced directly, 6 supported via lesson plan, 19 not claimed.
- Colorado — Middle School ICAP (Individual Career and Academic Plan) Quality Indicators and Elements (grades 6-8): 71 criteria — 5 evidenced directly, 12 supported via lesson plan, 54 not claimed.
Ohio was researched and dropped rather than shipped: its Career Connections Framework is a one-page graphic with no numbered criteria, so any code column we printed for it would have been our invention wearing a state seal. Florida and Georgia were started and never finished. The other 42 states have not been attempted. A career-standards document is also not the same thing as a plan-completion mandate — for which states compel an individual student plan and under which statute, see the career and education plan mandate directory. For the deployment these crosswalks sit inside, see JobCannon for Middle Schools and career assessments for school districts, both part of the JobCannon for Business hub.
District-tier pricing
Scale is $199/mo and covers 200 people per billing period — the same unit as any school or district deployment. Where the crosswalks are the evidentiary piece a procurement review needs, the Education Licence below prices your whole enrolment per student for the year, assessments uncapped.
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Education Licence — priced per student, per year
One rate per enrolled student for the academic year, across every school in the district, whichever state standard you are evaluating against. Assessments uncapped, career and skills corpus included — multiply your own enrolment by the band and that is the price, before you talk to us.
$3.00 down to $2.00 per student, per year — assessments uncapped
Per head this is more than our monthly hiring plans, and deliberately so — it is a different licence, not a bigger size of the same one. Those plans meter individual candidates for hiring and coaching. This covers your enrolled roll for the academic year with assessments uncapped, retakes included, the career and skills corpus licensed with it and the cohort dashboard in the price. Which one is yours is decided by use, not by whichever number is smaller.
District
A large school, multi-school district or trust
per year
- ▸Every assessment in the catalogue, retakes included, no per-assessment charge
- ▸Cohort dashboard with cross-school and year-over-year comparison
- ▸Full career and skills corpus — 2,521 careers, 1,863 skills
- ▸Read the corpus live over the API, or take a versioned snapshot
- ▸Named contact, quote letter formatted for procurement
College or university
A university, college or college group
per year
- ▸Every assessment in the catalogue, retakes included, no per-assessment charge
- ▸Cohort dashboard with cross-school and year-over-year comparison
- ▸Full career and skills corpus — 2,521 careers, 1,863 skills
- ▸Read the corpus live over the API, or take a versioned snapshot
- ▸Named contact, quote letter formatted for procurement
State system
A statewide or national programme
per year
- ▸Every assessment in the catalogue, retakes included, no per-assessment charge
- ▸Cohort dashboard with cross-school and year-over-year comparison
- ▸Full career and skills corpus — 2,521 careers, 1,863 skills
- ▸Read the corpus live over the API, or take a versioned snapshot
- ▸Named contact, quote letter formatted for procurement
£350 per school, per year — a flat whole-school licence rather than a per-student rate, because that is the unit UK schools budget in. Same uncapped assessments and same corpus. Excludes VAT.
The ladder starts at 1,301 students. Below that there is no licence to quote: a roll that small is better served by a self-serve plan, and that is the one case where a plan covers a school’s own students — UK schools have the flat whole-school licence at any size. Bands are by enrolment, and the rate applies to your whole roll rather than to a seat count you have to predict. Invoiced annually against a purchase order; no per-assessment charge and nothing to top up mid-year. Assessing an institution's enrolled students is covered by the Education Licence, not by a hiring plan. What is in the corpus.
Ask for your state
Tell us which standard your district is held to and which grade band. If we have already read it, we send the crosswalk in your procurement format; if we have not, we tell you that plainly and how long it would take.
A line-by-line map from a state's own published career standard to what a specific product actually does about each line. Ours lists every criterion in the source document, states which of three things is true of it — evidenced directly, supported via lesson plan, or not claimed — and names the instrument behind every claim. Across the 6 states below that is 248 criteria, of which we claim 77 and decline 171.
Because a crosswalk that only lists hits is a brochure. 171 of the 248 criteria have no JobCannon surface behind them — some inherently physical or in-person, the rest simply not built — and they appear on each page in the same row format and at the same visual weight as the ones we do claim. A reviewer who cannot see what a vendor declines cannot judge what it claims.
Because they are different kinds of evidence. 25 criteria are closed by an artefact the software produces on its own; 52 are closed by a teacher doing classroom work with something the software supplies. Adding them into a single "77 of 248" headline would let the weaker kind borrow the credibility of the stronger one. Every page shows them as separate pills and every row states which it is.
It depends on the state, and each page says which case it is in a panel above its table. Arizona, Texas and California publish citable criterion codes and we reproduce them unchanged. Utah, Illinois and Colorado number their standards loosely or not at all, so part of the code shown there is ours — a reader who tries to cite it back to the department will not find it, which is exactly why the page says so before they try.
Ohio was researched and dropped rather than shipped: its Career Connections Framework is a one-page graphic with no numbered criteria, so any code column we printed for it would have been our invention wearing a state seal. Florida and Georgia were started and never finished. The other 42 states have not been attempted. If your state has a published middle-grades career standard and you are evaluating us against it, send it to us — building the crosswalk is a few days of reading, and we would rather do it against the document you are actually held to than hand you a page about a neighbouring state.
No. These pages read a published standard and describe, honestly, what our product does about each line of it. They are not an opinion on whether your district meets that standard, they are not certification of any kind, and the standards themselves get revised. Each page states the version we read and links the source so you can check any row against it rather than take our word for it.
Ask for your state
Tell us which standard your district is held to and which grade band. If we have already read it, we send the crosswalk in your procurement format; if we have not, we tell you that plainly and how long it would take.