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Peer reviewedHansen, Sean; Ashbrook, Michael – Community College Journal, 2000
The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) clearly identifies community colleges as integral players in creating a high quality workforce. With multiple funding streams, greater local control over system design, and a mandate for universal access, community colleges must be able to address the client tracking and data management challenges that…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities
Download full textNilsen, Sigurd R. – 2000
The Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS) administers programs and activities designed to help veterans obtain employment and training assistance. By establishing one-stop centers for employment services, the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) affects how VETS serves veterans. VETS has made some progress and improvements with regard to its…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Stevens, David W. – 2001
The passage of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Amendments of 1998 (Perkins III) and the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) marked a new era in the performance accountability partnership among the states, the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). Evaluation of vocational education…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Data Collection, Definitions
Direct linkTormen, Francis T. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Unemployment is a major social problem in a small East Coast county, with lack of work experience and few marketable skills serving as the contributing factors. The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) training program is a federal program implemented by the states to improve the occupational skills and the employability of the workforce. Scholars have…
Descriptors: Training, Program Effectiveness, Unemployment, Labor Force Development
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (NJ1), 2008
There is a strong and growing argument for higher educational attainment in the United States. The jobs that are expected to support the economy in the coming years will depend on a skilled workforce that is able to learn and adapt quickly to new challenges. However, demographic patterns demonstrate that relying on the traditional K-16 pipeline to…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Distance Education, State Action, Educational Attainment
Gregory, James Brent – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of the study was to examine relationships which existed between selected demographics and college grade point averages "GPAs" for dislocated workers and non dislocated workers enrolled in career-technical courses at a rural community college. The variables included in the study are age, gender, and marital status. The study…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Marital Status, Grade Point Average, Community Colleges
D'Amico, Ronald; Kogan, Deborah; Kreutzer, Suzanne; Wiegand, Andrew; Baker, Alberta; Carrick, Gardner; McCarthy, Carole – 2001
Early state and local progress toward implementation of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) was reviewed. Data were collected through visits to selected sites in Florida, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, and Vermont and a 90-item Workforce System Information and Evaluation (WSIE) data collection form. The following aspects of WIA…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Agency Cooperation, Budgeting
Mangum, Garth; Mangum, Stephen; Sum, Andrew – 1998
The 36-year effort to provide a second chance at labor market success for disadvantaged and dislocated youth and adults was reviewed. The following issues were considered: (1) current legislative proposals; (2) lessons from past employment and training programs; (3) the labor market challenges faced by young adults, older workers, dislocated…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Programs, At Risk Persons, Career Education
Overseeing One-Stops: A WIB Member's Guide to Quality Assurance. Workforce Board Development Series.
2000
This guide is intended to give workforce investment boards (WIBs) a practical framework for overseeing the performance of one-stop career centers. The introduction presents background information on a proposed quality assurance framework and the guide's format and development. The first two sections explain the importance of quality assurance to…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Advisory Committees, Business Administration, Career Centers
Callahan, Jim; McLaughlin, Brenda – 2002
This guide presents information and materials to help youth programs manage program intake, design an individual service strategy (ISS) as mandated in the Workforce Investment Act, and manage case files. The materials are based on information obtained from staff working in seven successful youth workforce investment programs in Maryland,…
Descriptors: Case Records, Case Studies, Caseworker Approach, Counseling Techniques
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 2002
The U.S. Congress asked the Government Accounting Office (GAO) to determine the following: (1) to what extent states were spending their Workforce Investment Act (WIA) funds and whether the Department of Labor's (Labor's) data accurately reflected available funds; (2) what Labor did to assess how states were managing their WIA spending; and (3)…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administration, Adult Programs, Agency Cooperation
D'Amico, Ronald; Martinez, Alexandria; Salzman, Jeffrey; Wagner, Robin – 2001
In March 2000, thirteen grants were awarded as part of the Individual Training Account/Eligible Training Provider (ITA/ETP) Demonstration. In summer and fall of 2000, the grant recipients' activities were subjected to an interim evaluation. Site visits were made to each grantee to determine what ITA policies and practices were being formulated,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Case Studies, Coordination, Counselor Client Relationship
