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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... Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977. In that legislation , Congress set aside 22 percent of the funds in the largest of the demonstration titles for programs to be jointly designed by prime sponsors and local ...
... Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977. In that legislation , Congress set aside 22 percent of the funds in the largest of the demonstration titles for programs to be jointly designed by prime sponsors and local ...
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... Youth Employment Problem As Members of Congress , problems facing American society are brought forcibly and repeatedly to your attention . Yet I would venture to say that few , if any , of the problems before you are as far - reaching ...
... Youth Employment Problem As Members of Congress , problems facing American society are brought forcibly and repeatedly to your attention . Yet I would venture to say that few , if any , of the problems before you are as far - reaching ...
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... Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act has taught us a good deal , as have programs like Upward Bound . We have also learned much about how to reach youngsters who have left school and attract them into special programs that ...
... Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act has taught us a good deal , as have programs like Upward Bound . We have also learned much about how to reach youngsters who have left school and attract them into special programs that ...
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... Youth Employment and the National Commission on Employment Policy over the last year , we now have answers to some of the key questions . Who are these young people , and why are they being left out or left behind ? The answers come ...
... Youth Employment and the National Commission on Employment Policy over the last year , we now have answers to some of the key questions . Who are these young people , and why are they being left out or left behind ? The answers come ...
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... youth employment . Although there is a very significant gap between the employ- ment levels for each group , the employment pattern is similar . However , the curve representing the employment of black youth in the same age group is ...
... youth employment . Although there is a very significant gap between the employ- ment levels for each group , the employment pattern is similar . However , the curve representing the employment of black youth in the same age group is ...
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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...