Jobs Corps: Vocational Training Performance Data Overstate Program Success.Statement of Cornelia M. Blanchette, Associate Director, Education and Employment Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division

摘要

My testimony today focuses on Job Corps' vocational training services.Specifically, I will first describe Labor's efforts to ensure the appropriateness of vocational training and its relevance to local labor markets; second, I will discuss the extent to which program participants are completing vocational training programs and obtaining jobs related to the training received. In addition, as the Subcommittee requested, I will discuss our examination of the appropriateness of Labor's use of sole-source procurement for a substantial portion of this training. Much of my testimony is drawn from a study we are conducting at the request of the Subcommittee as well as from reports on the Job Corps program we have issued since 1995.