The Department has developed a policy that the Governor may apply the
JTPA hold-harmless to the substate allocations for the adult and
youth programs during the first two years the States operate title I of WIA. For
more information you may access the usworkforce.org web site under the What's New
section.
Two different WIA Performance Meetings were
conducted October 13-15 by staff from the OWS Accountability Team and ORM. Both
meetings were held in Chicago and hosted by Region V. The meeting held on
October 13 was for the staff of Region V and their States. The Accountability
Team presented an overview of the current version of the WIA performance measures.
This included a description of the 17 core indicators, their draft definitions
and technical specifications. There is considerable interest from the States to
find out the direction of the performance measures. States are especially
interested in the need to develop relationships with other system partners and
the need to share data/outputs necessary for reporting and continuous improvement.
It was stressed to everyone that the information was draft and subject to changes
before it becomes final.
On October 14-15, a meeting of the 6 Early Implementing
States was held to discuss operational issues with their implementation
efforts to date, and to initiate discussions about their annual report. The
States also used the forum to exchange ideas on implementation approaches. The
Accountability Team expects to utilize the information learned from these States
as we develop our guidelines for PY 2000.
The Federal Partners met to discuss next steps in the Unified
Planning Process. A process was developed to handle comments that come
in on the proposed Unified Planning Guidance. Plans are still
in place to have the document published by the end of December.
The Section 188 Nondiscrimination Regulations have
been sent to the Deputy Secretary's office for final review for publication in
the Federal Register.