Job Training Partnership Act. Services and Outcomes for Participants with Differing Needs. Report to Congressional Requesters [microform]
- Bib ID:
- 5507240
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED310254
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1989
- 108 p.
- Summary:
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Since its passage, the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) has provided nearly $10 billion to state and local agencies to provide job training to unskilled and economically disadvantaged individuals who need training to obtain employment. The General Accounting Office (GAO) studied hard-to-serve JTPA participants and compared the services they received and outcomes experienced relative to less needy participants. Some of the findings of the study were the following: (1) JTPA is not targeting any particular job readiness group for enrollment in the program; (2) school dropouts were significantly underserved; (3) less job-ready individuals tended to receive less intensive services; (4) the quality of jobs received after leaving JTPA was strongly related to the skill level of training received, regardless of participants' initial job readiness status; and (5) low skill on-the-job training was often provided for excessive periods of time, resulting in a subsidy to employers rather than true job training for the participants. GAO recomended that JTPA: increase its emphasis on higher and moderate skill job training; collect data necessary to measure differences in programs associated with such training; and monitor the effect of more intensive training on the number of participants the program can serve and on program outcomes. (KC)
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- Availability: U.S. General Accounting Office, P.O. Box 6015, Gaithersburg, MD 20877 (First five copies free; additional copies: $2.00 each; 100 or more: 25 percent discount).
- ERIC Note: For a related document, see CE 053 062.
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- General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources
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- 1989
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