The National Advisory Council on Women's Educational Programs was established in 1974 according to one of the provisions of the Women's Educational Equity Act, Public Law 93-380. The Council is charged with overseeing the administration of the program created by the act, making recommendations regarding funding of projects under the act,…

The 1977 annual report of the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education is presented in this document. Section 1 describes the Council functions. Names and addresses of council members are listed in section 2. Dates and locations of meetings held during 1977 are given in section 3. The next section summarizes council activities for 1977,…

A summary of a 50-state assessment of the organization, composition, staffing, and operations of State Job Training Coordinating Councils (SJTCCs), conducted through telephone interviews with Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) or SJTCC administrators, produced a sketch of SJTCC procedures and practices. Some of the findings of the summary…

This three-part activities report of the Maryland State Council on Vocational-Technical Education relates information primarily on council evaluation activities conducted during Fiscal Years 1989 and 1990, although in some instances more current information was used. Part I summarizes the activities of the council during 1990. Parts II and III…

Contents of this annual report summarize the functions of the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education, list its 1976 meetings and its members, and present findings and recommendations from eleven council reports made during the year. The reports are as follows: (1) final report of the school-to-work project which produced a series of six…

Ohio's use of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) 8 percent set-aside has been noted as exemplary. The first half of this report reviews the national literature on 8 percent JTPA programs, then discusses Ohio's State Education Coordination and Grants Advisory Council (SECGAC), unique among state administrative mechanisms. It notes that SECGAC…

The President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans was established by the 1990 Executive Order 12729 to advise the Secretary of Education on how to promote quality education for Hispanic Americans. The Commission is also responsible for providing advice to the Secretary on the progress of Hispanic Americans toward…

This document reports briefly on the status of vocational education in West Virginia during 1987-88, as reported by the West Virginia State Council on Vocational Education. It summarizes the duties of the council, presents an overview of the number of students enrolled and the number of vocational programs in the state, and commends exemplary…

Developed by the National Association of State Boards of Education/Louisiana Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA)-Education task force, this position paper describes the potential for CETA/Vocational Education collaboration, particularly CETA-Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA)/Vocational Education coordination, in…

One- to four-page summaries are presented of fifty-seven of the 1978 annual reports of the State Advisory Councils of Vocational Education. Most of the reports, which are arranged alphabetically by state, address the effectiveness of vocational education programs, services, and activities in meeting the objectives as set forth in the state plan…

Highlights listed for the Department of Education's Intra-Agency Committee on Education's third year include issuance of the national rural education policy statement (October 1984), sponsorship of a national forum on rural education with 697 attendees (June 1984), formation of a Subcommittee on Rural Education Data, continued liaison with other…

An evaluation was conducted in Maryland of the vocational education delivery systems assisted under the Job Training Partnership Act and the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act, in terms of their adequacy and effectiveness in achieving the purposes of these acts for the program years 1986-87 and 1987-88. Evaluation was carried out through…

This report of the activities of the National Advisory Council on Extension and Continuing Education during 1976 focuses on current information about (1) the nature and extent of the need for federal continuing education programs; (2) the appropriateness of the existing responses in light of the needs identified; and (3) the Council's…

The National Council on Vocational Education believes that the new Vocational Education Act should focus on the development of the human capital that is essential to any efforts to revitalize our nation's productivity. This will require program improvement for training and retraining in new high-technology occupations, access to programs by…

Data from four case studies of urban vocational education and a National Opinion Research Center survey of high school sophomores and seniors were used to research the role of vocational programs in managing the transition from school to work. The case study cities were Atlanta, Chicago, Rochester, and San Francisco. It was found that vocational…