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Download full textDixie Grunenfelder; Kefi Andersen; Mandy Paradise – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2024
Building Bridges is charged with creating a statewide program for comprehensive dropout prevention, intervention, and retrieval (DPIR) programming, and to make annual recommendations to the legislature and the governor on DPIR best practices and system needs. Washington's graduation rate has steadily been increasing since 2021 with 83% of the…
Descriptors: State Programs, Statewide Planning, Best Practices, State Legislation
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, 2018
The Worker Retraining (WRT) program is a key strategy in meeting the economic and workforce needs of Washington's workers and employers. Funded through the state legislature, the aim of WRT is to ensure dislocated and other unemployed workers have access to education and training that will help them reattach to the labor market in jobs and careers…
Descriptors: Job Training, Retraining, Employment Programs, State Programs
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Direct linkLogan, Christopher W.; Cole, Nancy; Kamara, Sheku G. – Journal of Child Nutrition & Management, 2010
Purpose/Objectives: The Direct Verification Pilot tested the feasibility, effectiveness, and costs of using Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) data to verify applications for free and reduced-price (FRP) school meals instead of obtaining documentation from parents and guardians. Methods: The Direct Verification Pilot…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Health Insurance, School Districts, Feasibility Studies
Capps, Randy – 2001
This report assesses hardship among children of immigrants nationwide and in states with large immigrant populations (California, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Texas, and Washington). Data from the 1999 National Survey of America's Families show that hardship is greater for children of immigrants than for the children of…
Descriptors: Children, Family Income, Health Insurance, Housing
Benus, Jacob M.; And Others – 1994
The Washington State Self-Employment and Enterprise Demonstration (SEED) was the first federally sponsored self-employment demonstration program for unemployed workers in the United States. Its primary purpose was to determine the viability of self-employment as a reemployment option for recipients of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits who do…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Demonstration Programs, Employment Programs, Entrepreneurship
Benus, Jacob M.; And Others – 1994
The first and longest section of this publication is a comparative analysis summarizing the impacts of the two Unemployment Insurance (UI) Self-Employment Demonstration Projects in Washington State and Massachusetts. Based on the first wave of post-project follow-up surveys, this evaluation report provides results on the net impacts of each…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Demonstration Programs, Employment Programs, Entrepreneurship
Benus, Jacob M.; And Others – 1995
The main parameters of state self-employment assistance (SEA) programs for unemployed workers were tested in two experimental demonstrations authorized by the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act. The Washington State and Massachusetts Unemployment Insurance (UI) Self-Employment Demonstrations evaluated the ability of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs, Employment Programs
Pennell, Frances E.; Brown, Sharan E. – 1999
This manual provides Washington state consumers and their advocates with information and guidance to enable them to pursue appropriate avenues for funding assistive technology (AT). Chapter 1 discusses the legislative history of AT, the definition of AT, and basic funding strategies. Chapter 2 reviews health-related sources of AT funding including…
Descriptors: Adults, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Community Resources, Disabilities
Hadland, Jeff; Landry, Gerald – 2002
The performance of Alaska's State Training and Employment Program (STEP) in fiscal 2000 was evaluated by matching the records of participants of the following STEP subprograms with Alaska and Washington state unemployment insurance (UI) wage records and federal military and federal civilian payroll records. Data were collected for participants of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Definitions, Demand Occupations, Dislocated Workers
