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Download full textJob Corps, 2008
This paper presents the recommendations made by the Advisory Committee on Job Corps to the Secretary of Labor pertaining to the review, development and implementation of policies, legislation and regulations for the Job Corps program. This document represents the culmination of an intensive and comprehensive nine-month process undertaken by the…
Descriptors: Job Training, Labor, Federal Programs, Program Effectiveness
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1990
This report stresses the need for a broad and substantial upgrading of the quality of the U.S. work force and outlines seven critical policy areas that require coordinated action to meet the challenge. Chapter 1 discusses the Workforce 2000 Project, a major Department of Labor effort designed to ensure that the work force has the skills and…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Dislocated Workers, Employment Programs, Employment Services
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1993
This guide provides information on the following topics: services available to help businesses recruit, train, and hire qualified workers; publicly funded programs that provide these services; and where businesses can get more information and help to take advantage of these services. The guide describes many training and employment programs funded…
Descriptors: Business, Employment Programs, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
National Commission for Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1992
The National Commission for Employment Policy (NCEP) is an independent federal agency authorized under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) of 1982. NCEP analyzes employment and training issues and policies and recommends to the President and Congress areas in which policy or programmatic changes would assist the U.S. work force in becoming…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Federal Legislation, Government Role, Job Training
Bell, Brenda L. – 1989
A companion to a previous publication called "Private Industry Council Roles and Options," this document is intended to help State Job Training Coordinating Council members and other interested parties better understand the scope and significance of the councils' mission. It provides basic information on the mission, roles, functions,…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Educational Policy, Employment Programs, Job Training
Buck, Maria L. – 1999
This report describes the performance of New York City's Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) adult training providers. It discusses challenges currently faced by providers, and recommends strategies for improving the performance of the city's employment and training system, including those arising from the implementation of the Workforce…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Dislocated Workers, Employment Programs, Entry Workers
Department of Labor, Washington, DC. – 1989
A 38-member Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) advisory committee was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Labor to review the country's employment and training policy, especially as focused in the JTPA, and to make recommendations for improvement. The committee found that two interdependent problems face the United States: a widening gap…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Basic Skills, Disadvantaged
Washington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board, Olympia. – 1998
This report contains program evaluations of Washington state agencies represented on the Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board: Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC), and Employment Security Department (ESD). OSPI's report uses data from the graduate…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Employment Programs, Followup Studies, Graduate Surveys
Mangum, Garth; Mangum, Stephen; Sum, Andrew; Callahan, James; Fogg, Neal – 1999
The effectiveness of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 was critiqued. WIA was praised for providing an avenue for communication among state and local agencies during development of workforce development plans, potentially allowing individuals to choose from a wider array of services and service providers, spreading the concept of one-stop…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, At Risk Persons, Career Centers, Delivery Systems
NETWORK: America's Two-Year Coll. Employment, Training, and Literacy Consortium, Cleveland, OH. – 1990
In 1989-90, a survey was conducted of two-year colleges nationwide to determine their level of involvement in the delivery of employment, training, and literacy services to public sector agencies and business and industry. The study focused particularly on those services funded under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), the Job Opportunities…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Contract Training, Delivery Systems
Bloom, Howard S. – 1990
This monograph presents results from a study of the Texas Worker Adjustment Demonstration, a 2,192-person randomized experimental evaluation of reemployment programs for displaced workers conducted at three Texas sites during 1984-85. It describes in detail: (1) the background, design, conduct, and content of the programs at each demonstration…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs, Dislocated Workers, Employment Programs
King, Christopher T. – 1988
Concern for performance management has increased sharply in recent decades in both the public and private sectors. This has been particularly true in the management of state and federally funded human resource development programs. Legislative purpose, level of use, the role of performance standards, appropriate measures of performance, target…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Educational Policy, Employment Programs, Government Role
Maryland State Dept. of Employment and Training, Baltimore. – 1985
This second annual plan of Maryland's Department of Employment and Training (DET) outlines goals, objectives, and implementation strategies and highlights programs initiated during its first year of operation. Sections 1, 2, and 3 offer the mission statement, historical overview, and departmental structure. Section 4 outlines DET goals and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Annual Reports, Departments
Resource Manual of Jointly Planned/Funded Programs/Services/Activities To Serve Special Populations.
LaBrecque, Suzanne V.; And Others – 1989
This document is intended to aid those in Texas doing joint planning of vocational and technical education programs with programs conducted under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), the Adult Education Act, Chapter I of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act, the Education of the Handicapped Act, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Apprenticeships, Cooperative Programs
Connecticut State Council on Vocational-Technical Education, Hartford. – 1993
The Connecticut State Council on Vocational-Technical Education made recommendations to improve education that would help students prepare for the work force. The council evaluated the following: its belief statement; the Connecticut economy; the state's ability to support technical jobs; and education and training for work in Connecticut,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Economic Development
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