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The Job Training Partnership Act: An Analysis of Support Cost Limits and Participant Characteristics.
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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1985
This publication reports on a recent study that compared the new Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) with its predecessor, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). The study was conducted to determine how the JTPA limit on money for program administration affected the type of individual served and the training provided in the…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Job Training, Participant Characteristics
Evaluation of Comprehensive Employment and Training Programs, 1981. Hearing before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-Seventh Congress, First Session (October 20, 1981).
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1981
This document is a transcript of hearings on evaluation of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). Focus of the hearing was on mismanagement and misappropriation of CETA contract funds, especially in the last days of the Carter administration. Testimony was given by various present and former officials of the Department of Labor,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
School-to-Work Transition Programs: A Policy Analysis. Final Report.
Newitt, Jane; And Others – 1984
A policy analysis examined existing school-to-work transition programs in order to identify and evaluate the arguments for a national initiative to provide school-to-work transition services to high school seniors who are poorly equipped to obtain and retain jobs after graduation. To gather data for the study, the researchers conducted a…
Descriptors: Career Education, Disadvantaged, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
Strategies for Involving the Private Sector in Job Training Programs.
Greenwood, Katy; And Others – 1981
This two-part report describes various strategies for involving the private sector in job training programs and summarizes a study conducted with prime sponsors of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs in Texas. Included in a discussion of involving the private sector in job training programs are the following topics: the new…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Business, Delivery Systems, Educational Cooperation
Analysis of the Competency-Based High School Diploma Program for CETA Clients. Report I: Structural and Programmatic Features of the Pilot Project as Model.
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McMillan, Samuel H., Jr. – 1979
The University of Texas Pilot Program was operated in five sites in Texas (Abilene, Brownsville, El Paso, Houston, and Temple) to demonstrate the utility of competency-based high school diplomas for Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) clients. Included among the program features common to all five sites were the following: (1) the…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Competency Based Education, Demonstration Programs, High School Equivalency Programs
Linking School and Work for Disadvantaged Youths. The YIEPP Demonstration: Final Implementation Report.
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Diaz, William A.; And Others – 1982
The Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects (YIEPP) demonstration was a large-scale test of a school-conditioning guaranteed jobs program for teenagers from low-income families. Unlike previous youth employment programs, the YIEPP linked school and work by offering jobs to all youth who met the eligibility criteria and who also agreed to remain…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs