A study examined five local work training programs in California that have combined resources from both the federal Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) and the public education system. The programs studied are located in San Diego County (Ramona), Montebello, San Francisco (Chinatown), Shasta County, and southeast Los Angeles County. In these programs, local operators have used three basic approaches to implement coordinated programs: negotiation of contracts using JTPA "8 percent" monies, which permit programming outside of usual performance contract constraints; identification of common goals; and delineation of service function combined with an integration of complementary service capacities. The three approaches are not mutually exclusive, however, and appear in all five programs to varying degrees. Although the study shows that coordination can work, it also presents anecdotal evidence explaining why cooperative JTPA/education efforts generally do not succeed. Despite federal and state attempts to identify common goals across JTPA and occupational education programs, many local JTPA and occupational education program operators perceive their missions to be fundamentally different. JTPA program personnel generally view federal- and state-specified performance standards as mandates for cost-effective programming oriented mainly to employer needs. Educators, on the other hand, place more emphasis on meeting student developmental needs than on achieving specific placement and cost-per-placement outcomes. (MN)