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Accelerating Connections to Employment. Volume II. Appendices
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Modicamore, Dominic; Lamb, Yvette; Taylor, Jeffrey; Takyi-Laryea, Ama; Karageorge, Kathy; Ferroggiaro, Enzo – ICF International, 2017
These appendices accompany the full report that summarizes the implementation and evaluation of the Accelerating Connections to Employment (ACE) program. The ACE program model is designed to improve employment and employment-related outcomes for low-skilled workers through formal partnerships between Workforce Investment Boards (WIBs) and…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Job Training, Partnerships in Education, Community Colleges
Accelerating Connections to Employment. Volume I. Final Evaluation Report
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Modicamore, Dominic; Lamb, Yvette; Taylor, Jeffrey; Takyi-Laryea, Ama; Karageorge, Kathy; Ferroggiaro, Enzo – ICF International, 2017
This report summarizes the implementation and evaluation of the Accelerating Connections to Employment (ACE) program. The ACE program model is designed to improve employment and employment-related outcomes for low-skilled workers through formal partnerships between Workforce Investment Boards (WIBs) and community colleges. Implemented at nine…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Job Training, Partnerships in Education, Community Colleges
Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act--Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Joint Planning: The How-To Manual for Postsecondary Institutions. A Supplement to "Navigating the Labyrinth."
Lovelace, Bill E.; And Others – 1988
This manual was developed to help expedite the efforts of postsecondary vocational education and Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs in developing comprehensive strategies, by joint planning, to serve the common targeted populations of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984 and JTPA. It is a supplement to "Navigating…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Coordination, Educational Planning, Federal Programs
Collaboration, Cooperation and Coordination--Toward a Definition for Educators and Job Trainers: A Case Study of State JTPA "Eight Percent" Plans.
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Hickey, Delina R. – 1986
A study examined the ways in which practitioners in four states were defining the terms coordination/cooperation/collaboration when directing the monies set aside in Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) funding for use in coordination among educators and job training providers. Case studies of the use of 8 percent set-aside monies were conducted in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Cooperative Planning, Coordination
Texas Quality Work Force Planning: Preparing Texas for the 21st Century through a Skilled and Educated Work Force.
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Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Austin. – 1990
In 1989, in an effort to prepare the Texas economy for successful global competition, the Texas legislature mandated regional Quality Workforce Planning for vocational-technical education, calling on educators and employers to form training partnerships to strengthen the state's work force. In response to this legislation, 9 of Texas's 24 planning…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, College School Cooperation, Committees, Community Colleges
Texas' Project RIO (Re-Integration of Offenders): Program Focus.
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Finn, Peter – 1998
Texas's Project RIO (Re-Integration of Offenders), which was developed in cooperation with the National Institute of Justice, National Institute of Corrections, and U.S. Department of Education's Office of Correctional Education, began in 1985 as a two-city pilot program to place parolees in jobs. Project RIO has since expanded steadily and now…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Agency Cooperation, Correctional Education