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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1993
A study examined implementation of the Redwood worker assistance programs implemented to help mitigate the loss of jobs by timber workers in Northern California upon expansion of the Redwood National Park in 1978. The benefits provided to workers under the Redwood Employee Protection Program (REPP) were generous. As of December 1988, REPP had…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Dislocated Workers, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1991
This report is an analysis of available data on the participation of people with disabilities in the nation's Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs. Covering program year 1989, this report includes information about people with disabilities served by JTPA in every service delivery area (SDA) in the country. The narrative section briefly…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Disabilities, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Trutko, John; And Others – 1991
A study assessed the role of program coordination in enhancing Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) program effectiveness and efficiency. Information was collected through a review of more than 100 reports on JTPA coordination, telephone interviews with staff from 60 JTPA coordination projects, and case studies of nine of the coordination projects.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Community Cooperation, Compliance (Legal)
Clippinger, John H.; Fain, Sanford B. – 1980
The two reports presented here describe an 18-month project intended to review and evaluate the first year's activities of the Office of Telecommunications Policy's (OTP) Telecommunications Demonstration Program for the delivery of social and health services; develop approaches for evaluating individual demonstration programs in the future;…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs
Wigdor, Alexandra K.; And Others – 1982
This report provides a blueprint for reorganizing the governing structure of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and suggests new procedures of test development and test administration that will increase the interpretability of the assessment while at the same time making more staff and monetary resources available for research…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Maine State Dept. of Educational and Cultural Services, Augusta. Bureau of Adult and Secondary Vocational Education. – 1989
This report outlines accomplishments of the state of Maine in implementing the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act during program year 1988-89. Information is provided for Title II, Part A (Vocational Education Opportunities Program) with regard to these categories: services for handicapped individuals, disadvantaged persons, adults in need…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Employment Programs, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Bruner, Charles – 1990
This legislators' guide outlines state maternal health programs and strategies and offers states options for improving their maternal and child health services. The introductory chapter 1 is followed by an overview of maternal and child health status in the United States in chapter 2. Costs associated with the failure to provide adequate prenatal…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Child Health, Federal Programs, Guidelines
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. – 1990
This document reports the oral and written testimony of witnesses at a Congressional hearing held to review the vocational program and examine H.R. 3053, which would allow the Secretary of Veterans' Affairs to issue exemplary rehabilitation certificates for certain persons discharged from the Armed Forces. Witnesses included Members of Congress,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Hearings
Danzberger, Jacqueline P. – 1990
An eight-part descriptive analysis is presented of the 18 projects funded through OERI's Educational Partnerships Program (EPP) in September of 1990. The EPP supports alliances between public schools and/or higher education and the private sector to encourage excellence in education. The 18 projects include: Anchorage Vocational Academic Institute…
Descriptors: Charts, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Donaldson, William S. – 1990
The 1990 Summer Academic Skills Achievement Program in Columbus (Ohio) provided 160 hours of instruction in reading comprehension and language mechanics skills needed for entry-level employment to 123 Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) clients. The program used a "whole language" approach to grammar and composition instruction and also…
Descriptors: Attendance, Black Students, Federal Programs, High Schools
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. – 1986
In 1983, Congress established the Veterans' Job Training Act (VJTA) Program to provide stable and permanent employment for Korean Conflict and Vietnam era veterans who have been unemployed for long periods of time. About 99 percent of VJTA participants are male, 81 percent are white, 90 percent are at least high school graduates, and over 80…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Job Training, Outcomes of Education
McBeath, Marcia – 1982
This report describes the results of an evaluation of Title IV programs carried out between 1979 and 1982 in the District of Columbia Public Schools. Evaluation activities included: examination of proposals, project evaluations, and administrative budgets; construction and distribution of questionnaires to State Educational Agency (SEA)…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, Needs Assessment
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1982
State administration of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Balance of State (BOS) programs was compared with administration of CETA programs by local (regular) prime sponsors in Michigan to gain insight on the potential impact of increased state control. BOS prime sponsors spent less than regular prime sponsors for administration…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
National Advisory Council on Adult Education, Washington, DC. – 1982
Seventeen hearings on the reauthorization of the Adult Education Act were conducted throughout the country by the National Council on Adult Education during fiscal year 1981, according to the Council's annual report. From testimony gathered from adult educators, other human service professionals, clients, elected officials, appointed…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Annual Reports
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1985
This hearing concerned an amendment of the Job Training Partnership Act that would establish an education component in the summer youth employment programs funded under part B, Title II, of that Act. The first bill discussed (H.R. 1090) would convert the existing programs to ones that (1) provide basic academic and functional competencies for…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Cooperation, Federal Programs, Government Role
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