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Monday June 18, 2012

JFF Working for Students' "Ability to Benefit"

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JFF has been working with its partners to help reinstate the "Ability to Benefit" (ATB) provisions of the Higher Education Act since its elimination in last year’s Consolidated Appropriations Act of Fiscal Year 2012. For years, ATB has allowed students without a high school diploma or a GED to qualify for federal aid by passing a specified test or...

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Wednesday June 13, 2012

On the Latest WIA Reauthorization Efforts

by Jobs for the Future
Last week the House Education and the Workforce Committee considered a bill, H.R.4297, the “Workforce Investment Improvement Act of 2012,” that would dramatically reform the nation’s workforce investment system by consolidating over 20 federal employment and training programs into a single block grant to states and local areas. (The bill was last...

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Thursday April 19, 2012

A Blueprint for Transforming Career and Technical Education

by Jobs for the Future
JFF commends the goals set forth in the Administration’s Blueprint for a reauthorized Perkins Career and Technical Education Act in order to strengthen our nation’s global position in workforce and economic development.  The four principles outlined in the blueprint–alignment, collaboration, accountability, and innovation–are important to...

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