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Rodler, Liza – Administration for Children & Families, 2021
The Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (URM) Program serves refugees and other eligible youth within the United States who do not have a parent or relative available to care for them. While current research points to the importance of education for vulnerable populations including refugees, immigrants, and youth in foster care, there are gaps in the…
Descriptors: Refugees, Immigrants, Foster Care, Educational Attainment
Fulton, Mary; Sponsler, Brian A. – Education Commission of the States, 2015
Ensuring access and affordability to a postsecondary education for veterans and their dependents has long been a focus of federal and state education policy. Developing policy to support educational attainment among these individuals has required state policymakers to address residency requirements for veterans to determine eligibility for…
Descriptors: Tuition, In State Students, Veterans Education, Access to Education
Florida State Council on Vocational Education, Tallahassee. – 1993
Evaluation of the coordination of vocational education and programs provided under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) included a survey of Florida's 24 service delivery areas (SDAs). The assessment was designed to provide a "snapshot" of the services provided to JTPA clients through educational institutions and on-the-job training…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Educational Cooperation
Perez-Johnson, Irma; Decker, Paul – 2001
The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 requires that workforce investment areas establish individual training accounts (ITAs) that provide vouchers customers can use to pay for training. The United States Department of Labor is supporting the ITA experiment, during which new customers determined to be eligible for training will be randomly…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Counseling, Comparative Analysis, Delivery Systems
Further Education Unit, London (England). – 1993
By 1996, Training Credits (TCs) will be available to all 16- and 17-year-olds leaving full-time education or training in Britain. They are funded by the transfer of resources that would otherwise be paid to technical colleges for part-time provision for this age group and through resources allocated for the Youth Training program. The aim of TCs…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Role, Curriculum Development, Educational Finance
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities. – 1995
This document records the proceedings of a Congressional hearing on the role of the federal government in education policy. Statements are provided by Richard Riley (Secretary of Education), Bret Schundler (Mayor, Jersey City, New Jersey), Tommy Thompson (Governor, Wisconsin), and Representatives, William L. Clay (Missouri), William F. Goodling…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Information, Civil Rights, Decentralization