PART I

STATE DIRECTORS OF VOCATIONAL

EDUCATION REPORTS

ALABAMA

State Director-T. L. Faulkner

INTRODUCTION

Vocational education in the State of Alabama has experienced a 62 percent increase in enrollment between fiscal year 1963 and fiscal year 1972. Between 1963 and 1968, a 23 percent increase in enrollment was realized, and between 1968 and 1972 a 32 percent increase was attained. The continued significant growths in enrollments evidence the increasingly important roles that vocational education is playing in Alabama's public education. Unfortunately, these percentages report only those persons enrolled in classes for which the local agency receives reimbursement from Federal and/or State funds. We cannot, as was requested, report the courses funded from local resources only, but will in the future be able to supply these data as we have just this year implemented a procedure which will report these enrollments. The following table evidences the data upon which the above growth percentages were calculated.

TABLE 1.-TOTAL ENROLLMENT IN REIMBURSED VOCATIONAL EDUCATION COURSES1

1 Includes enrollment in courses funded from Federal and State resources; no data available on courses funded from local resources.

* Does not include 1,300 students with special needs.

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PUBLIC LAW 90-576, PART B

Job Training Enrollments

Data were not available for enrollments related to specific job training for fiscal year 1963. However, as table II reflects, job training enrollments have also significantly increased during the years since enactment of the 1968 amendments. Specifically, Alabama has posted a 36-percent increase up to 1972, and projects a 104-percent increase over fiscal year 1968 by fiscal year 1977.

General Description

No part B moneys have been expended in Alabama for the development of Federal job training for youth and adults other than those reported in table II. However, in these programs, 98 distinct OE codes are offered. The breakout by vocational service of numbers of OE coded occupations offered are as follows:

In addition the technical schools (postsecondary) offer 44 distinct occupational areas.

Postsecondary Courses

Ten years ago Alabama had 11 State technical Institutes and no State junior colleges. By 1972, however, the State was sporting an additional 16 technical institutes and 18 junior colleges. Enrollments supported through part B of the act are reported on table III. This table reflects a 74-percent increase in enrollment during the period from 1968 to 1972. No additional part B money is anticipated for junior colleges; however, with the initiation of extended day and evening programs it is projected that by 1977 Alabama's postsecondary institutions will have realized a 161-percent increase in occupational enrollment over its 1968 figure.

TABLE 11.-JOB TRAINING ENROLLMENTS SUPPORTED IN WHOLE OR IN PART BY PART B MONEYS 1

Level totals..

42, 517 11,423 34,960 58,206 19,853 43, 244 85, 535 29,793 65,958

Grand totals..

88,900

121, 303

181, 286

1 Data is not available breaking out State versus part B supported enrollees.

* Does not include 1,300 students with special needs who could not be broken out by level. NOTE. Part B data not applicable to 1963.

TABLE III.-POSTSECONDARY ENROLLMENTS SUPPORTED IN WHOLE OR IN PART BY PART B MONEYS

Table IV reflects the numbers of disadvantaged students enrolled by vocational service areas and the respective percentages of the total enrollments for each. Progress toward the improvement of instruction for the disadvantaged can be enumerated as follows:

1. A handbook for working with the disadvantaged student setting out the intent of Congress has been written and distributed statewide; 2. A teacher's curriculum guide with emphasis on placement has been written for teaching and evaluating disadvantaged students; 3. A pilot program for working with disadvantaged students has been conducted, field tested and implemented;

4. Special summer programs for teachers working with the disadvantaged student have been initiated;

5. Areas of high concentrations of disadvantaged students have been identified;

6. Two statewide in-service workshops have been held for vocational education teachers concentrating in the areas of planning and conducting experiences and activities for disadvantaged students.

7. Identification procedures, problem areas, and additional services for disadvantaged students have been developed; and

8. Eight district workshops have been held for vocational education teachers having summer programs for the disadvantaged.

Handicapped Students

Table V reflects the numbers of handicapped students enrolled by vocational service areas and the respective percentages of the total enrollments for each. Progress toward the improvement of instruction for the handicapped can be enumerated as follows:

1. A statewide evaluation of handicapped programs has been conducted in order to upgrade programs to meet the needs of the students; 2. Workshops have been held with the State staff to discuss progress for the handicapped and responsibilities of different divisions at the State level;

TABLE IV.-DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS SERVED UNDER PART B OF THE ACT1

1 See table for total enrollment by year.

2 Disadvantaged and handicapped enrollments both included. No data were available relative to the number in each category under 1968 reporting procedures.

Served under Part F.

NOTE, Part B data not applicable to 1963.

TABLE V.-HANDICAPPED STUDENTS SERVED UNDER PART B OF THE ACT1

2 Disadvantaged and handicapped enrollments both included. No data were available relative to the number in each category under 1968 reporting procedures.

Served under part F.

NOTE.-Part B data not applicable to 1963.

3. A cooperative agreement between the divisions of vocational rehabilitation, exceptional children and youth, and vocational-technical and higher education has been entered into; and a very active working relationship has been implemented at both the State and local level;

4. Statewide workshops with vocational rehabilitation conselors, special education teachers, and vocational education teachers have been successfully conducted with others planned;

5. Additional programs have been implemented for meeting the needs of industry through employing handicapped adults; and

6. A handbook for working with the handicapped students setting out the intent of congress has been written and distributed Statewide.

Adults

During fiscal year 1970, the first year for which complete descriptive records were kept, vocational education in agribusiness was provided for 18,499 adults by 369 teachers. These programs were conducted by teachers on their own time without additional pay. In that same year business and office education programs were provided in 24 of the 67 counties. One hundred forty-three teachers taught

7,825 adults. Most of the business and office programs during this year were in the larger cities. In 1970 more than 50 percent of the enrollees in distributive education were out-of-school youths or adults. During this same year occupational home economics programs served 2,950 adults. The occupational home economics programs were offered mainly in urban areas for training and/or upgrading workers in school food service programs, hospital and nursing home food service departments, child care centers and kindergartens, garment factories, and alteration departments in dry cleaning establishments and department stores. During fiscal year 1970, 568 classes were conducted in trade and industrial education and health occupations education serving 15,023 adults.

During fiscal year 1971 more than 41,000 adults were provided with preparatory or supplementary education. Programs were available in rural and urban areas. During this year, a new statewide program of industrial development training was initiated. Working in close conjunction with the State technical institutes and the Alabama development office, the industrial development training program has made Alabama very competitive by providing individuallytailored training programs for new and expanding industry.

During fiscal year 1972 the enrollment in adult vocational programs (preparatory, supplemental, and apprenticeship) totaled 43,244. Agribusiness teachers (378) enrolled 16,325 (2,488 disadvantaged; 138 handicapped including adults). Office education programs were provided in 20 of the 67 counties constituting 138 programs enrolling 3,536 adults.

Adult education for updating and upgrading health workers during fiscal year 1972 included workshops, seminars, lectures, and formally organized classes. The trend for continuing education units as a requirement for relicensure or recertification will continue to cause increases in the number of adult health occupations programs. Full-time distributive education secondary teachers provided continuing education to 4,642 adults.

At the present time Alabama is engaged in the development of a comprehensive adult vocational education program. This program will be implemented primarily through the secondary schools using the growing network of area vocational centers throughout the State. Table VI reports adult enrollments.

TABLE VI.-ADULT ENROLLMENTS SERVED UNDER PART B OF THE ACT1

1 No data available as to the number of adults in these programs who are unemployed or employed. Part B data not applicable to 1963.