42 U.S.C. § 12655f — Training and education services
submitted 36 years ago by Pub. L. 101-610 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 443 words · no verdicts yet
Program agencies must check each participant's education level when they join and offer testing for learning disabilities. Agencies must spend at least 10 percent of their funding on training, education, and counseling for participants. Participants without a high school diploma get priority and a path to earn one.
(a) Assessment of skills: When a participant* joins, the program agency must check the participant's education level. It can use existing records or a simple assessment method. Where it makes sense, the agency must also refer the participant for testing to check for specific learning disabilities.
(b) Enhancement of skills: Through its programs and activities, each program agency must help build up participants' education skills.
(c) Provision of pre-service and in-service training and education: (1) Requirement -- Each agency must spend at least 10 percent of its yearly funding under this division on training, educational materials, and services for participants, both before and during service. Participants must also be told how their work benefits their community. (2) Agreements for academic study -- An agency may partner with schools such as local school districts, community colleges, four-year colleges, vocational-technical schools, or community organizations. These partners can check participants' basic skills and offer classes so participants can improve literacy, earn a high school diploma or its equivalent, earn a college degree, or build job skills. (3) Counseling -- During in-service training, participants must get career and education counseling. When a participant finishes the program, they must get counseling about further study, job training, or jobs, and -- where it fits -- help finding a job. (4) Priority -- Agencies must give priority for these services to participants who do not yet have a high school diploma or its equivalent.
(d) Standards and procedures: (1) Consistency with State* and local requirements -- State and local officials must certify that the standards and procedures for giving academic credit and certifying educational progress under subsection (c) follow state and local law and rules. (2) Academic standards -- Those standards must require that a participant who (A) has not graduated high school takes part in a course of study to earn a diploma or its equivalent, and (B) may earn academic credit recognized for the education and skills the participant gains through service.
Each program agency shall assess the educational level of participants at the time of their entrance into the program, using any available records or simplified assessment means or methodology and shall, where appropriate, refer such participants for testing for specific learning disabilities.
Each program agency shall, through the programs and activities administered under this division, enhance the educational skills of participants.
Each program agency shall use not less than 10 percent of the assistance made available to such agency under this division in each fiscal year to provide pre-service and in-service training and educational materials and services for participants in such a program. Program participants shall be provided with information concerning the benefits to the community that result from the activities undertaken by such participants.
A program agency may enter into arrangements with academic institutions or education providers, including—
local education agencies;
community colleges;
4-year colleges;
area vocational-technical schools; and
community based* organizations;
to evaluate the basic skills of participants and to make academic study available to participants to enable such participants to upgrade literacy skills, to obtain high school diplomas or the equivalent of such diplomas, to obtain college degrees, or to enhance employable skills.
Career and educational guidance and counseling shall be provided to a participant* during a period of in-service training as described in this subsection. Each graduating participant shall be provided with counseling with respect to additional study, job skills training or employment and shall be provided job placement assistance where appropriate.
A program agency shall give priority to participants who have not obtained a high school diploma or the equivalent of such diploma, in providing services under this subsection.
Appropriate State and local officials shall certify that standards and procedures with respect to the awarding of academic credit and the certification of educational attainment in programs conducted under subsection (c) are consistent with the requirements of applicable State and local law and regulations.
The standards and procedures described in paragraph (1) shall provide that an individual serving in a program that receives assistance under this division—
who is not a high school graduate, participate in an educational curriculum so that such individual can earn a high school diploma or the equivalent of such diploma; and
may arrange to receive academic credit in recognition of the education and skills obtained from service satisfactorily completed.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 101–610, title I, § 199G, formerly § 127, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3145; renumbered § 199G, Pub. L. 103–82, title I, § 101(a), Sept. 21, 1993, 107 Stat. 788.)
- 1990Enacted · Pub. L. 101-610 · 104 Stat. 3145
- 1993Amended · Pub. L. 103-82 · 107 Stat. 788
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 101-610 on 1990-11-16.
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