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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1983
The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) compared the former Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Private Sector Initiative Program (PSIP) with the traditional Comprehensive Services Program (Title IIB) in terms of participants, services, and outcomes in order to provide baseline data for the supervision of the Job Training Partnership…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
PDF pending restorationNorth Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Support Programs. – 1988
This document provides a self-monitoring process to simplify and streamline program monitoring of Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs. It is designed to increase local responsibility for program compliance by encouraging school districts and schools to perform a program compliance self-review and to provide technical and management…
Descriptors: Career Education, Compliance (Legal), Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods
Knuti, David; Zuckerman, Alan, Ed. – 1986
This guide is intended to assist Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) program policymakers, planners, and program operators to understand the provisions and possibilities afforded by the JTPA. The first section provides an overview of the JTPA. Discussed next are the following aspects of the JTPA planning and administration system: federal funding…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Legislation, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1991
This document records the oral and written testimony of persons testifying at Congressional hearings about proposed amendments to change and improve the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) of 1982. Witnesses testifying and/or presenting written testimony at the hearings included several Representatives, the Secretary of Labor (Lynn Martin), and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1984
This document summarizes the preliminary findings of U.S. House of Representatives and research on the workings of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) of 1982 during its first nine months. To prepare this print, the committee conducted Congressional forums and site visits in Seattle, Washington; Cleveland, Ohio; Nashville, Tennessee; and…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Dislocated Workers, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Brustein, Michael – 1989
The Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act and the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) contain several inconsistent fiscal and legal requirements. The federal legal framework governing expenditure of funds under the Perkins Act and JTPA is voluminous and cumbersome, but no effort has been undertaken to maintain a coherent legal resource covering…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audits (Verification), Comparative Analysis, Compliance (Legal)
Bellott, Fred K.; And Others – 1986
The Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) of 1982 is a federally funded program for, and directed by, the states and provides that the governor of the state is the official recipient of JTPA funds. A study was conducted in Tennessee to identify and document a generalizable formula for determining eligible funds used to match JTPA expenditures to…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Educational Finance, Educational Planning, Federal Legislation
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1987
The Summer Youth Employment and Training Programs funded by the Job Training Partnership Act were reviewed to determine how the various service delivery areas (SDAs) planned to assess and improve the reading and mathematics skills of participants. Telephone interviews with program officials at 200 randomly selected SDAs found that local school…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Compliance (Legal), Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs
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
Druian, Greg; Spill, Rick – 1983
This guide provides an introduction to competency-based employment and training under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). The guide describes in general terms the steps service delivery areas should take to implement competency-based employment and training systems for youth. The content is based on the experiences of practitioners, and it is…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Competence, Competency Based Education, Educational Resources
McDonnell, Lorraine M.; Grubb, W. Norton – 1991
A study analyzed the role of state governments in implementing federal education and job training policies and in designing and implementing their own policies. A framework was developed for understanding policy instruments used to promote education and training objectives: mandates, inducements, capacity-building, and system-changing. Each type…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Policy, Federal Aid, Federal Government
American Vocational Association, Arlington, VA. – 1983
The seven major papers in this collection discuss the implications of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) (Public Law 97-300) of 1982 from the points of view of its various constituencies. Two of the papers discuss the effects of the JTPA on national employment and training programs, and on state-level programs, while a third discusses…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Career Counseling, Career Guidance
Sutherland, Ned B.; And Others – 1987
The Michigan Council on Vocational Education evaluated the coordination between vocational education and the service deliverers of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) in the state in order to comply with the mandates of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. The purpose of the study was to describe the structure and job training…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Compliance (Legal), Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems
Brown, Larry – 1984
The advent of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) has not been favorable to community-based organizations (CBOs) serving unemployed young people. The overall decline in the amount of money available for employment training is one reason for the reduction in services, but it is not the sole reason. The transition to the new act itself is also…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Role, Community Action, Community Cooperation
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
