ERIC Number: ED297117
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1987-Mar
Pages: 100
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The More Things Change...A Study of the Status of PY 85 JTPA Coordination and PY 84 JTPA Program Activities. Research Report Series.
Bailis, Lawrence Neil
A study documented and assessed changes in patterns of service delivery that followed the implementation of the Job Training Partnership Act of 1982 (JTPA). It focused specifically on the kinds of training activities and services that have been implemented and the degree to which they have been coordinated with related programs. Two complementary approaches were used: review of the JTPA implementation research literature and conduct of "panel studies." Data were collected from 45 prime sponsors during the last full year of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) and 45 JTPA service delivery areas (SDAs). Comparisons of activities funded under CETA and JTPA revealed that the typical prime sponsor/SDA spent fewer funds per client under JTPA, the typical SDA spent larger proportions of its funding on class-sized vocational skills training and on-the-job training under JTPA than under CETA, and there have not been appreciable changes in the kinds of training offered. The most striking study results in the area of coordination involved the absence of change in coordination that has followed the transition from CETA to JTPA. A number of important issues were raised: causes and results of reductions in participant costs, a decline in service to youth, absence of progress in implementing customized training courses, and lack of increases in coordination. (YLB)
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: National Commission for Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC.
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Comprehensive Employment and Training Act; Job Training Partnership Act 1982
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