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Direct linkBryant, Donald W.; Kirk, Mary P. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1997
Argues that 1994's School-to-Work Opportunities Act (STWOA) presents challenges for colleges regarding liability. Reviews legal issues related to standards for employing minors; verifying worker age; working with federal, state, and local laws; obtaining waivers of federal regulations; and protecting participants. Addresses additional challenges…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship, Educational Technology, Federal Legislation
McFarlane, Patrick; Wilson, Maja – Camping Magazine, 1999
School-to-Work programs can help camps address the chronic shortage of support staff and can provide funding for the training and support of teenage staff. One camp's success with teen workers was based on collaboration with families and local schools and agencies, staff cooperation, and administrative willingness to stretch job roles. Benefits to…
Descriptors: Day Camp Programs, Education Work Relationship, Entry Workers, Job Training
Download full textChadsey, Janis; Leach, Lynda; Shelden, Debra – 2000
This report contains profiles of eight states (Colorado, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont) that describe the states' efforts to include youth with disabilities in School-to-Work efforts. Data were gathered on each of the states through written records of state resources and grants, web site information,…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
Churchill, Andrew – 1994
Several decades of studies evaluating youth employment programs funded through the nation's second-chance system have demonstrated the shortcomings of programs that concentrate on work experience alone and try to reverse years of inadequate education, discrimination, and alienation in a few weeks or months. The School-to-Work Opportunities Act…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Apprenticeships, Change Strategies
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House. – 1994
This conference report outlines the proposed House of Representatives and Senate compromise regarding disputed provisions in the proposed School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994. First, Congress' findings regarding the education needs of noncollege-bound students, youth employment, work-based learning, and educational attainment in the United…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Education Work Relationship
Spangler, D. – 1999
This document is intended to help existing school-to-work (STW) partnerships and the new local work force investment boards understand the opportunities for achieving common ground to better serve youth during implementation of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and formation of the new youth councils. The following are among the topics discussed:…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Advisory Committees, Career Counseling, Career Education
