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Direct linkDecker, Paul T.; Berk, Jillian A. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2011
In 1998, President Clinton signed the federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA). Implemented in 2000, WIA replaced the Job Partnership Training Act (JTPA) as the primary federal job training program. Congress viewed WIA as a way to end "business as usual" in the workforce investment system. WIA aimed to transform the employment and training…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Job Training, Federal Programs, Program Design
Kolb, William J. – 1989
Now that basic skills have been linked to the economic prosperity of the country, businesses have become concerned about improving the basic skills of young people. A promising approach is the Summer Reporter Project conducted in Wisconsin as part of the summer programs of the Job Training Partnership Act. The program has three main elements: (1)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Basic Skills, Dropout Prevention, Economic Development
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1983
This handbook illustrates and discusses organizational options for the delivery of employment and training services within service delivery areas (SDAs) mandated by the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) of 1982. Addressed primarily to members of private industry councils (PICs), representatives of local governments, and employment and training…
Descriptors: Adults, Agency Cooperation, Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged
Harrison, Bennett; And Others – 1995
Based on interviews with Community Development Corporation (CDC) personnel from many organizations conducted at 10 sites throughout the country, this report presents an overview of CDCs and employment training, supported by detailed case studies. The report is organized in six chapters on the following topics: employment training and the changing…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Development, Compliance (Legal), Economic Development
Download full textStover, Deborah A. – 1990
"Look into the Future" is a program created by a Job Training Partnership Act project and 9to5, Working Women Education Fund, to address the training and retraining needs of office workers in light of the advances in computer and communications systems. This guide describes the model project and suggests steps other organizations can…
Descriptors: Clerical Occupations, Clerical Workers, Curriculum Development, Dislocated Workers
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1982
The Job Training Partnership Act of 1982 continues a long-standing federal commitment to help disadvantaged persons prepare to obtain employment. The legislation works primarily through a locally based program delivery system to provide remedial education, training, and employment assistance to low-income and long-term unemployed youth and adults.…
Descriptors: Adults, Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Business Responsibility
Job 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
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1982
This guide is the first in a series of interpretive explanations of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). It is designed to provide practitioners and business leaders involved in state and local employment and training programs with an understanding of how to implement the public-private partnership of JTPA. This first edition does the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Business Responsibility, Disabilities
Wiegardt, Liz; Weinstock, Phyllis – 1994
In the face of steadily declining numbers of small-operation farmers and ranchers, the Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance Act's Farmers and Ranchers Demonstration Project funded projects in four states to develop strategies for serving farmers. The experiences of these four projects in Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Demonstration Programs, Dislocated Workers, Employment Programs
Love, Lois Thiessen; And Others – Evaluation Forum, 1988
This supplemental issue deals with local and state evaluation issues and methods. It includes articles on Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) follow-up, responsiveness to client needs, performance standards, training JTPA professionals in evaluation, and Private Industry Councils' selection of program deliverers. (JOW)
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Evaluation Methods, Followup Studies, Job Performance
Douglass, Rebecca S. – 1990
A national network of six regional curriculum centers and at least 40 state-level curriculum materials centers are designed to identify and provide job training materials. These centers are supported with funds from federal and state legislation for vocational and technical education. The extent to which services of these centers are currently…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Development, Education Service Centers
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1984
The Government Accounting Office (GAO) conducted an examination of patterns and causes of fraud in Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs to determine how implementation of Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs might be made less vulnerable to exploitation. GAO's investigation found that fraud and abuse in CETA programs…
Descriptors: Crime Prevention, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Federal State Relationship
Bass, Randall V.; Bass, Jo Ann F. – 1991
Youth Opportunities Unlimited (YOU), a program operating on funds from the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), was initiated at Arkansas State University in 1989. The 60-day program is targeted to economically disadvantaged 14- and 15-year-olds who are on grade level and have been identified as being likely to drop out of high school, but are not…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Federal Programs, High Risk Students, High Schools
Riffel, Rodney – 1986
This guide is intended to help state legislators enact legislation and create programs of job training within the provisions of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). The guide's five sections cover the following: job training policy (an introduction); establishing oversight of a state's job training resources; the state legislature and the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Compliance (Legal), Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1988
This report describes dislocated worker programs operating in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The findings presented are based on the following sources: two National Alliance of Business (NAB) surveys of state administrators of federally funded Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs (conducted in 1987 and 1988), data on JTPA…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation, Financial Support
