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Download full textUS Government Accountability Office, 2016
Enacted in 2014, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) brought numerous changes to existing federal employment and training programs, including requiring the Department of Labor (DOL) and the Department of Education (Education) to implement a common performance accountability system across the six WIOA-designated core programs. WIOA…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Legislators, Accountability, Job Training
Crawford, Clarence C. – 1994
According to the General Accounting Office (GAO), at least 154 programs administered by 14 federal departments/agencies provide approximately $25 billion in annual employment training assistance. The GAO reviewed 62 of those programs in December 1993, and a U.S. Senate committee requested basic information about 88 of the programs in June 1994.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Ganzglass, Evelyn; Figueroa, Jose R. – 1988
This paper looks at performance standards and related policies as tools for influencing the direction of local programming as well as ensuring accountability throughout the service delivery system. It suggests various ways in which the different components of the Job Training Partnership Act's performance management system can be used to promote…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adults, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
Bomberg, Neil E. – 1990
The National Association of Counties (NACo) conducted a mail survey of service delivery areas (SDAs) to disprove allegations that 40 percent of them had not been audited since the start of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) in 1983. A questionnaire was developed and mailed to every third SDA on a list of all SDAs. Of 244 SDAs, 235 or 96…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Vocational Education, Audits (Verification), Compliance (Legal)
Crawford, Clarence C. – 1994
In the fragmented federal system, over 150 programs provide employment training assistance to adults and out-of-school youth. Individually, these programs have well-intended purposes. Collectively, they raise four concerns: (1) they are difficult for job seekers and employers to access and for administrators to implement; (2) they overlap and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Responsibility, Administrators, Adult Education
Adult Education. Measuring Program Results Has Been Challenging. Report to Congressional Requesters.
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1995
A study reviewed the Adult Education Act's (AEA's) largest program--the State Grant Program, its coordination with federal employment training programs, and the extent to which the program ensured accountability for program quality and results. The study relied on national data in conducting its review and performed more detailed work in three…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
Crawford, Clarence C. – 1995
Research conducted by the General Accounting Office (GAO) indicates that the current system of multiple employment training programs requires major overhaul to reduce costs, streamline the bureaucracy, and improve results. The current system of 163 different federal employment training programs wastes resources and confuses and frustrates clients,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Change Strategies
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 2003
The General Accounting Office (GAO) surveyed officials in nine federal agencies regarding the following aspects of the employment and training programs they administered: funding levels; types and numbers of participants; services provided; and outcome measures. The 9 agencies were administering 44 programs providing a range of employment and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, American Indians, Budgets
Forsythe, Dall W., Ed. – 2001
These case studies and analytic essays are intended to give the reader a richer understanding of when and how top managers succeed or fail in their efforts to use performance management (PM) systems to improve the functioning of federal, state, and local government in the United States (U.S.). The question mark in the title is intended to remind…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Effectiveness, Adult Education, Budgeting
Office of Inspector General (DOL), Washington, DC. – 2001
The Department of Labor (DOL), Employment and Training Administration (ETA), awarded its final round of Job Training Partnership Act, Title IV, Pilot and Demonstration Grant Program funds for the Youth Opportunity Area Out-of-School Youth (YOA OSY) program in April 1999. Four of the 5 programs were audited in 2000. This audit is a follow-up to the…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Accountability, Adult Education, Audits (Verification)
