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A Pathway to Continued Success on the Job. A Final Report, July 1, 1998-June 30, 1999 [and] Product.
Download full textCort, Maureen A.; Pappalardo, Michele F.; Gonzalez, Manuel A. – 1999
This manual was developed by a project to create a model program that integrates basic skills instruction with requirements of welfare reform, and the project's final report describes activities taken to develop the manual. The report details the problem, goals, procedures, objectives met and not met, and an evaluation. The manual is designed to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, Employment Services
Cort, Maureen; Krouse, Nancy; Gonzalez, Manuel – 1998
This document begins with a report describing a Northampton Community College project to develop a manual to help adult literacy providers understand how they fit into welfare reform. The accompanying manual consists of four sections corresponding to the project's four objectives. Section 1, intended to enable adult literacy providers to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Agency Cooperation
Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children, Harrisburg. – 1997
This report profiles trends in state and federal spending for children in Pennsylvania from fiscal year (FY) 1989-1990 through 1995-1996, and highlights budgetary trends and the impact of federal welfare reform on selected children's health, nutrition, early care and education, elementary and secondary education, income support, and child welfare…
Descriptors: Budgets, Child Health, Child Support, Child Welfare
Tannery, Frederick J. – 1998
A study used a unique data set to evaluate the effect of Targeted Jobs Tax Credit (TJTC) on the labor market outcomes of program participants--more than 29,000 individuals for whom Pennsylvania businesses sought tax credits during 1988-94 (final sample was 17,388). Firm-level data were combined with wage data obtained from administrative quarterly…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth
Manzo, David – 1997
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 gives states the opportunity to devise unique welfare programs that include client participation in educational activities. States receive block grants rather than funds earmarked for certain kinds of programs. Pennsylvania's welfare reform plan permits welfare clients to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Agency Cooperation, Basic Skills
Van Horn, Barbara; Kassab, Cathy; Grinder, Elisabeth – 2002
Pennsylvania's family literacy programs were subjected to a statewide evaluation in 1999-2000. Data were collected through focus groups with parents, a survey of staff in community agencies and organizations, and analyses of program data and the findings of selected assessments administered to adults and children involved in the program.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills
