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Status Report on Single Parents and Homemakers Programs in New Jersey 1988-1989.
Montclair State Coll., Upper Montclair, NJ. Life Skills Center. – 1989
A study was conducted to identify the factors that lead single parents and homemakers to choose nontraditional job training and the barriers they encounter in this effort. Data were collected from 14 sites in New Jersey through a mailed survey of 73 single parent/homemaker program clients and 10 program directors. The survey found that the…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Displaced Homemakers, Females
Job Training Partnership Act. Summer Youth Programs Increase Emphasis on Education. Briefing Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Employment and Productivity, Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate.
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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1987
The Summer Youth Employment and Training Programs funded by the Job Training Partnership Act were reviewed to determine how the various service delivery areas (SDAs) planned to assess and improve the reading and mathematics skills of participants. Telephone interviews with program officials at 200 randomly selected SDAs found that local school…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Compliance (Legal), Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs
An Analysis of the Perceptions of State and Local Policymakers of Community College Participation in Job Training Partnership Act Programs.
Swender, Herbert James – 1991
In 1990, a national survey of two-year institutions revealed that among colleges operating Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs, the cost per participant was far below the national average for JTPA programs. However, interviews conducted with community colleges suggested that officials responsible for disbursing JTPA funds were not…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, College Role, Community Colleges