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From: Fran Keenan <fran@cal.org>
To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov
Subject: workforce devel. bds
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This information is being crossposted from the NLA list: (It was
written by Bob Bickerton.)
"Workforce Development Boards" are the newest incarnation of
what many of us have come to know as "Private Industry
Councils" (and related, generally volunteer employment &
training/JTPA related regional or statewide policy boards).
Both house and senate legislation provide them with
substantial responsibilities for oversight of "workforce
development activities." They would/could, for example,
oversee local/regional planning for employment and training
and (to different extents in the House & Senate bills)
"employment related education" activities.
Although some states are saying they'll conduct processes
that might result in new players in charge of such centers
(including the "one stop career centers" -- the emerging
new
name for Service Delivery Area agencies), the former
players
are usually tenacious enough to hang in there and emerge as
key players "in the new order." (remember the Manpower and
CETA program transitions before JTPA?)
We not only need to work closely with them because they
might end up with an important role, re ABE/ESOL resources,
but also because:
a) there's a great deal of current E&T funding used for ABE
that might no longer without local advocacy/involvement
b) we owe more coordinated services to our students.
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