Hearings on the President's Youth Education and Employment Initiative: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 6711 ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 - 938 pages |
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... fact that unemploy- ment is highly concentrated among a few who never seem to find work . In fact , 75 percent of total unemployment among our young people is accounted for by less than 10 percent of 25.
... fact that unemploy- ment is highly concentrated among a few who never seem to find work . In fact , 75 percent of total unemployment among our young people is accounted for by less than 10 percent of 25.
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... fact is , we have learned a great deal about how our schools can successfully attack those very problems . It is obvious that illiteracy seriously cripples a young person for entry into the job market . In our increasingly complex ...
... fact is , we have learned a great deal about how our schools can successfully attack those very problems . It is obvious that illiteracy seriously cripples a young person for entry into the job market . In our increasingly complex ...
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... fact will be available , the use of this money is tied to close cooperation with local employers . The final element in the program design that I would like to call to your attention , Mr. Chairman , is the emphasis that we have placed ...
... fact will be available , the use of this money is tied to close cooperation with local employers . The final element in the program design that I would like to call to your attention , Mr. Chairman , is the emphasis that we have placed ...
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... fact draw up the plan which they are going to follow . It requires an intense amount of joint effort among local people : unions , parents , teachers and principals . Teaching young people work skills , linking study to the work setting ...
... fact draw up the plan which they are going to follow . It requires an intense amount of joint effort among local people : unions , parents , teachers and principals . Teaching young people work skills , linking study to the work setting ...
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... fact is that we are laboring under no doubt at all about who the young people are who are going to be available for public and private sector employment in the 1980's . Those youngsters are already here . They are in school . Many of ...
... fact is that we are laboring under no doubt at all about who the young people are who are going to be available for public and private sector employment in the 1980's . Those youngsters are already here . They are in school . Many of ...
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achievement administration alternative education alternative school areas assistance basic skills bill career Chairman PERKINS committee component concentration Congress Congressman cooperation coordination counseling criteria Department of Labor Detroit Public Schools disadvantaged youth dropouts educa education and employment educational agency efforts elementary eligible employability employers Employment and Training employment programs employment skills enrolled experience Federal fiscal FORD formula funds goals going GOODLING grades graduates grams grants HAWKINS Hispanic implementation improve in-school income initiative Job Corps junior high school labor market legislation ment million MUNDEL National opportunity Orshansky participation percent planning population postsecondary poverty prime sponsor private sector problem proposal public schools question requirements school districts school programs school system secondary schools Secretary HUFSTEDLER skills training specific subcommittee success TAGGART talking target teachers testimony Thank tion unem unemployed Wayne County young youngsters Youth Act youth employment
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Page 543 - HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON ELEMENTARY, SECONDARY, AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR Washington, DC The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:35 am, in room 2175, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon.
Page 173 - ... organized education program" means only (A) instruction related to the occupation or occupations for which the students are in training or instruction necessary for students to benefit from such training, and (B) the acquisition, maintenance, and repair of instructional supplies, teaching aids and equipment; and the term "vocational education" does not mean the construction, acquisition or initial equipment of buildings, or the acquisition or rental of land.
Page 227 - ... maturity, but about establishing safeguards against what immediately threatens the life and health of schoolchildren. It is our conviction that the emergency we are facing is comparable to the scope of the challenges which have been met in the past by such categorical Federal assistance as the Defense Education Act, the Vocational Education Act, and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The corruptive influences of drug abuse loom as the greatest single threat to child growth and development...
Page 209 - ... the State shall, in considering the approval of such applications, give priority to those applicants which— (i) are located in economically depressed areas and areas with high rates of unemployment, and are unable to provide the resources necessary to meet the vocational education needs of those areas without Federal assistance...
Page 690 - The court shall have jurisdiction to affirm the action of the Secretary or to set it aside, in whole or in part. The judgment of the court shall be subject to review by the Supreme Court of the United States upon certiorari or certification as provided in section 1254 of title 28, United States Code.
Page 297 - The family income of eligible youths must be below 85 percent of the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
Page 712 - There are authorized to be appropriated for 3 carrying out the provisions of this title such sums as may be 4 necessary for fiscal year 1981 and each of the three succeed5 ing fiscal years.
Page 135 - It is generally acknowledged that compensatory education programs, such as title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), are moderately successful at improving achievement.
Page 46 - I said, if we are going to succeed in doing anything about youth unemployment, it seems to me that it is going to have to be a real coordinated effort, something we have not had before.
Page 173 - Vocational education means organized educational programs which are directly related to the preparation of individuals for paid or unpaid employment...