Report to the Congress: Effectiveness and Administrative Efficiency of the Neighborhood Youth Corps Program Under Title IB of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, Selected Rural Areas of MinnesotaU.S. General Accounting Office, 1969 - 103 pages |
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Page 69 - Non-Federal contributions may be in cash or in kind, fairly evaluated, including but not limited to plant, equipment, and services...
Page 28 - ... programs to provide part-time employment, on-the-job training, and useful work experience for students from low-income families who are in the ninth through twelfth grades of school (or are of an age equivalent to that of students in such grades) and who are in need of the earnings to permit them to resume or maintain attendance in school...
Page 9 - ... its retention at present levels. 7. The Congress should consider: a. Redefining and clarifying the purposes and intended objectives of the NYC in-school and summer work and training programs authorized for students in section 123(a)(l) of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, as amended. b. Establishing specific and realistic goals for programs authorized and relative priorities for the attainment of such established goals. 8. The Congress should consider 10 merging the NYC out-of-school program,...
Page 17 - ... them to resume or maintain attendance in school; (2) programs to provide unemployed, underemployed, or low-income persons (aged sixteen and over) with useful work and training (which must include sufficient basic education and institutional or on-the-job training) designed to assist those persons to develop their maximum occupational potential and to obtain regular competitive employment...
Page 9 - ... that are eligible for the program on the basis of poverty level family income. However, if it is intended that the NYC program be used as a force to mitigate the dropout problem in any significant way, greater flexibility should be provided in the use of funds. In these circumstances it appears that available funds might be more effectively used for such things as the enlargement of existing school curriculums to provide for vocational education and for more intensive and professional counseling...
Page 9 - Accordingly, we recommended in our summary report that the Congress consider: 1. Redefining and clarifying the purposes and intended objectives of the NYC in-school and summer work and training programs authorized for students in section 123(a)(l) of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, as amended.
Page 28 - Neighborhood youth corps programs" to provide (a) part-time employment. on-the-job training, and useful work experience for economically disadvantaged students who are in the ninth through twelfth grades of school (or are of an age equivalent to that of students in such grades) and who are in need of earnings to permit them to resume or maintain attendance in school : (b) unemployed, underemployed, or economically disadvantaged persons (nged sixteen...
Page 3 - Department is directed and controlled by the Commissioner of Conservation, who is appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the State Senate, for a term of four years.