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DOCUMENT RESUME 111) 275 878 CE 045 478 AUTHOR Cook, Robert F.; And Others TITLE Transition Year Implementation of the Job Training Partnership Act. INSTITUTION Sestet Research, Inc., Rockville, Md. SPONS AGENCY Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, D.C. PUS DATE Jan 85 CONTRACT 99-3-0584-75-104-01 NOTE 423p.; For related documents, see CE 045 476-479. PUS TYPE Reports - Evaluative/Feasibility (142) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC17 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Decision Making; Dislocated Workers; Economically Disadvantaged; *Smployment Programs; Federal Legislation; *Federal Programs; *Job Training; *Program Implementation; State Programs; *Statewide Planning; Technical Assistance; Youth Programs IDENTIFIERS Employment Serviie; *Job Training Partnership Act 1982; Private Industry Councils; *Service Delivery Areas ABSTRACT This report covers a number of aspects of the implementation of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). Chapter 1 is an introduction. Chapter 2 discusses state-level organization and decision making, involving such questions as relationsamong the parties, designations of the Service Delivery Areas (SDAs), the state role in Title III, and Title IIA set-asides. Chapter 3 examines the nature of the relations between the state and the SDAs within the sta*e. It covers state regulation and technical assistance. Chapter 4 discusses the organization, major actors, and decision making within the SDAs. Chapter 5 examines private sector involvement at the state and SDA level. Chapter 6 is concerned with targeting of Title IIA and related set-asides by the state and within SDAs. Chapter 7 examines the service mix under Title IIA and program outcomes. Chapter 8 is concerned with youth programs, including the programs and service mix and use of tryout employment or exemplary programs. Chapter 9 discusses Title III--state organization and allocation decisions, SDA role, and service mix. Chapter 10 examines issues of performance standards--the process used by the state to set, measure, and calculate performance. Forms are appended. (YLB) *********************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. * *********************************************************************** OD OD NI Contract No. 99-3-0584-75-104-01 CD TRANSITION YEAR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE JOB TRAINING PARTNERSHIP ACT Robert F. Cook Richard L. Beatty H. Allan Hunt Sarah F. Liebschutz Gretchen E. Maclachlan Bruce Maclachlan Susan A. MacManus Mark J. Morlock Kenneth T. Palmer Alex N. Pattakos V. Lane Rawlins Kalman Rupp Wayne M. Turnage and Associates Prepared for: Division of Research and Evaluation Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Development Employment and Training Administration U.S. Department of Labor 601 D Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20213 U4 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office Educational Research and Improvement ED ATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION Prepared by: CENTER IERIC) This document bill been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. Westat, Inc. 0 Minor changes have been made to improve 1650 Research Boulevard reproduction oddity. Points of view or opinions stated in this docu Rockville, Maryland 20850 ment do not neceuarily represent official OERI position or policy. January 1985 -% BEST COPY AVAILABLE This report was prepared under contract No. 99-3-0584-75-104-01 with the Office of Research and Evaluation of the Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. Organizations undertaking such projects under government sponsorship are encouraged to state their findings and express their judgments freely. Therefore, points of view or opinions stated do not necessarily represent the official position of the Department of Labor. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This report on the second round ofobservation of the implementation of Titles IIA and III ofthe Job Training Partnership Act in the States and ServiceDelivery Areas is very much a product of a Field Network Evaluation. In addition to carrying out the actual observations in theirjurisdictions, a number of the Field Associates for this studyalso wrote chapters of the study report. They spent time at Westat, Inc., read all of the field reports, and thenauthored chapters related to their particular areas of interest. The authors of the chapters in this reportare as follows: Sarah F. Liebschutz of the State Universityof New York at Brockport and Susan A. MacManus ofCleveland State University wrote Chapter 21 The Dynamicsof State-Level JTPA Organization. Kenneth T. Palmer and Alex N. Pattakos,both of the University of Maine, authored Chapter3 on State-SDA Relations. Gretchen E. Maclachlan of Clark Collegeand Bruce Maclachlan wrote Chapter 4 on SDA Organizationand Politics. H. Allan Hunt of the W.E. Upjohn Institutefor Employment Research wrote Chapter 5 on Private-SectorInvolvement in JTPA. V. Lane Rawlins of Washington State University,Kalman Rupp of Westat, and I wrote Chapter 6on the Targeting and Selection Process. Richard L. Beatty and Wayne M.Turnage of Westat wrote Chapter 7 on Title IIA Service Mix andOutcomes as well as Chapter 9 on the Title III Program. Mark J. Morlock of 4 California State University at Chico wrote Chapter 8on Youth Programming. Finally, Kalman Rupp authored Chapter 10 on Performance Standards. Acknowledgment is also due to Madelyn Caan, Suzie Jones, and Sharon Proctor, who produced the report; to David Aiken and Carol Hannaford, who edited it; and to David Wright, who performed the computer programming. Robert F. Cook Project Director 5 JTPA PROCESS STUDY FIELD ASSOCIATES Associate State/SDA Professor John S. Hall Arizona Arizona State University Phoenix Gila-Pinal Counties Professor John J. Kirlin California University of Southern California San Francisco Professor Mark J. Morlock Butte County California State University, Chico Professor Ruth Ross Los Angeles California State University, Long Beach Professor Peter S. Barth Connecticut University of Connecticut Hartford Danielson-Willimantic, SDA #4 Professor Peter L. Halvorson University of Connecticut Professor Paul J. Andrisani Delaware Temple University State SDA Professor Gretchen E. Maclachan Georgia and Bruce Maclachan Atlanta Clark College Northeast Georgia, SDA #4 Professor Charles J. Orlebeke Illinois University of Illinois Northwest Municipal at Chicago Conference Consortium, SDA Region 8 Professor E. Allan Tomey West Central Illinois Saint Louis University Valley, SDA Region 21 Professor Duane Sorenson Danville Area, Indiana State University Vermillion County 6 Professor Charles E. Krider Kansas University of Kansas Johnson, Leavenworth and Wyandotte Counties, SDA #3 Atchison-Washington Counties, SDA #2 Professor Phillip W. Roeder Kentucky University of Kentucky Bluegrass, SDA #1 North Central, SDA Area A Professor KennethT. Palmer Maine University ofMaine State SDA Professor Alex N.Pattakos University ofMaine Dr. H. Allan Hunt Michigan W.E. Upjohn Institute Grand Rapids Area for Employment Research Employment and Training Council II Muskegon and Oceana Counties Professor George D. Wendel Missouri St. Louis University City of St. Louis, SDA #6 Professor E. Allan Tomey Columbia - Jefferson St. Louis University Counties, SDA #5 Mr. David M. Snedeker Montana P-,edeker Scientific Balance of Montana Professor Carl D. Ekstrom New York State University of New York City of Rochester at Brocxport Clinton-Hamilton Counties Professor Sarah F. Liebschutz State University of New York at Brockport Professor Lawrence A. Wohl North Dakota Gustavus Adolphus College Fargo Region 7 Professor R. Lynn Rittenoure Oklahoma University of Tulsa Tulsa Job Training Northeast Professor Steve B. Steib University of Tulsa Professor Frank P. Corcione Pennsylvania University of Scranton Lackawanna County Lehigh Valley PIC Professor Thomas N. Daymont Philadelphia Temple University Professor John E. Gnuschke Tennessee Memphis State University Fayette, Shelby Counties SDA #14 Professor Lewis H. Smith Benton-Weakley Counties, University of Mississippi SDA #12 Mid-Cumberland Council of Governments, SDA #8 Professor Susan A. MacManus Texas Cleveland State University Balance of Harris County Professor Robert M. Stein Rice University Professor Robert D. Wrinkle Cameron County Pan American University Professor David R. Knowles Washington Seattle University Tacoma-Pierce County Consortium Professor V. Lane Rawlins Washington State University Professor Gregory C. Weeks Pacific Mountain The Evergreen State College Consortium, SDA #2 Mr. Andrew Cohn Wisconsin Public-Private Research Associates Milwaukee County, SDA #18 Western Wisconsin, SDA #16 8 TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter Page EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 The Study 1-1 1.2 Study Method 1-12 1.3 Organization of the Report 1-25 2 THE DYNAMICS OF STATE-LEVEL JTPA IMPLEMENTATION 2.1 The Changing Role of State-Level Actors 2-1 2.2 The Politics of Policymaking 2-17 2.3 Summary 2-34 3 STATE-SDA RELATIONS 3.1 Types of State-SDA Relations 3-1 3.2 The Local Setting in Perspective. 3-8 3.3 Defining the Parameters of State-SDA Relationships 3-11 3.4 SDAs As Implementors of Both State and Local Policies 3-18 3.5 Conclusions 3-20 4 SDA ORGANIZATION AND POLITICS 4.1 Administrative Entities 4-3 4.2 Private Industry Councils 4-8 4.3 PIC-Administrative Entity Relations . 4-14 4.4 Role of Subcontractors 4-27 4.5 Service Delivery Area/Employment Service Relations 4-36 4.6 Summary 4-40 i n TABLE OF CONTENTS (continued) Chapter Page 5 PRIVATE-SECTOR INVOLVEMENT INJTPA