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National Commission for Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1991
This report addresses two concerns of Congress: ways to reduce layoffs and the effectiveness of programs to assist dislocated workers. Section I discusses the reasons for layoffs, economic conditions of the 1980s that led to layoffs, and public policy responses to worker dislocation. Section II describes alternatives to layoffs: short-time…
Descriptors: Adults, Agency Role, Dislocated Workers, Employment Programs
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1977
This bill to authorize a career education program for elementary and secondary schools, if enacted, would be cited as the "Elementary and Secondary Career Education Act of 1977." It is intended to assist States and local educational agencies in making education as preparation for work a major goal of teachers and students by increasing the…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Exploration
National Inst. for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (Dept. of Justice/LEAA), Washington, DC. – 1977
This document expands and updates the information presented in the First Analysis and Evaluation of Federal Juvenile Delinquency Programs. It includes: a description of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the National Institute for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; a report on the activities and recommendations…
Descriptors: Agencies, Agency Role, Delinquency, Delinquency Causes
President's National Advisory Council on Supplementary Centers and Services, Washington, DC. – 1968
This document reports a conference, attended by representatives from the 50 states, which attempted to ease the way for the transition of the administrative authority for the PACE program (Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title III, Projects to Advance Creativity in Education) from the direct control of the U.S. Office of Education to the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Agency Role, Community Involvement, Conference Reports
Budke, Wesley E. – 1983
Drawing upon a database of state-administered vocational education program improvement projects, a study examined state-administered programs to improve vocational education that were implemented from fiscal 1978 through fiscal 1982. After analyzing abstracts of 3,994 research, exemplary and innovative, and curriculum development activities,…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Curriculum Development, Databases, Educational Research
Bell, Terrell H. – 1982
The report outlines the national need for bilingual education by providing estimates of the target group (distribution and characteristics of the language-minority, limited-English-speaking population), describes the need for bilingual education among native American and Alaskan native students and in Puerto Rico, and examines the need for…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Bilingual Education
Hanberry, Gerald C.; And Others – 1981
A study analyzed the operations of state education agencies (SEAs) as they promote and develop the concept of community education (CE) in their respective states and assessed the impact of federal support on the capabilities of SEAs to develop their capacities in the community education area. Data were collected from 1001 respondents from the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Community Education
Hanberry, Gerald C.; And Others – 1981
A study analyzed the operation of state education agencies (SEAs) as they promote and develop the concept of community education (CE) in their respective states and assessed the impact of federal support on the capabilities of SEAs to develop their capacities in the community education area. Data were collected from 1001 respondents from the fifty…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Community Education
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Ripley, Randall B. – 1977
This last of a series of reports on the implementation of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) in Ohio, from the inception of the program in 1974 through mid-1976, compares 16 of the 17 prime sponsors in the State. The monograph describes and explains patterns of influence over decisionmaking about CETA at the local level, a…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Community Organizations, Decision Making, Delivery Systems
Huber, Jake, Ed.; And Others – 1976
Sponsored by 10 State departments of education (Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming), the Project participants met in San Antonio, Texas, on November 17-19, 1976 to discuss bilingual/multicultural education. Since Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas have had significant experience in this field and…
Descriptors: Agency Role, American Indians, Bilingual Education, Court Litigation