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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
Charbonneau, Wilfred – Industrial Education, 1986
Describes a model program for dislocated workers undertaken by a Job Training Partnership Act contractor, the College of the Mainland, which is a community college. (CH)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Demonstration Programs, Dislocated Workers, Program Design
Newitt, Jane; And Others – 1984
A policy analysis examined existing school-to-work transition programs in order to identify and evaluate the arguments for a national initiative to provide school-to-work transition services to high school seniors who are poorly equipped to obtain and retain jobs after graduation. To gather data for the study, the researchers conducted a…
Descriptors: Career Education, Disadvantaged, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
Download full textComptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1985
A study examined the organization and implementation of Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs at the state and local levels. Data for the study were obtained from a questionnaire given to JTPA program administrators in the 50 States, the territories, and the District of Columbia. In addition, the Government Accounting Office (GAO) visited…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Community Planning, Cooperative Planning
