| The purpose of the study was to prepare a narrative account of the significant events and individual actions which had a direct bearing on the conceptualization, development, and eventual enactment of the 1982 Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). The study begins on May 19, 1981, when Senator Dan Quayle identified in the Congressional Record, the major issues of concern in reformulating employment and training policies. It details the criticisms of the Comprehensive Employment Training Act (CETA) and the actions of the 97th Congress relative to job training. It ends with President Reagan signing the act into law on October 13, l982.; There were two broad categories of data collected for the study: primary and secondary. Primary data consisted of (a) documents available to the public such as: congressional committee and subcommittee hearings, Federal agency documents, correspondence and reports, and texts of proposed job training legislation; and (b) oral accounts and recollections of individuals involved in the decision making process related to this study. Secondary data included texts and journal literature, newspaper articles, and items published in Federal and state labor and education newsletters.; After the identification and collection, a chronology of events pertaining to the subject of the study and proposed research questions were developed. Copies of the proposed research questions and chronology were submitted to a panel of job training experts for evaluation and comments. Based on responses from the panel members, some of the research questions were revised, additional data was collected, the findings were synthesized, and the study was written. |
