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HRD-76-171 1 (1976-09-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaakm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20148 B-178741 September 17, 1976 The Honorable Vance Hartke Chairman, Committee on Veterans' Affairs United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: In your April 24, 1975, letter you requested that we determine whether the Veterans Administration (VA), State approving agencies, and participating schools were pro- perly 'implementing certain provisions of the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, (Public Law 93-508)--specifically the 50 percent employment rule, the 85 percent enrollment rule, and the course character and advertising provisions. We selected 13 schools for review--7 correspondence schools, 4 vocational/technical schools, and 2 flight schools. As you requested, we chose (1) correspondence schools which were the subject of our previous review of certain provisions of the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjust- ment Assistance Act of 1972, (Public Law 92-540) 1/, (2) vocational/tecnnical schools providing resident training, and (3) flight training schools. We selected these schools also because they had a variety of vocational courses and large veteran enrollment. We selected one course for re- view at each school. In general, these courses had a large veteran enrollment. As discussed below and in the enclosure, we noted de- ficiencies in all provisions reviewed which limited VA's assurances that the act was being properly implemented. Since neither the 13 schools nor the 13 courses reviewed were statistically selected, the deficiencies noted cannot be considered representative of all courses affected by the act. However, because the deficiencies were due mostly to inadequate VA policy and guidelines the following may be common deficiencies: --Some VA regional offices and State approving agen- cies did not process the schools' employment sur- vey reports for the 50 per.eaR,_rule as required. l/Follow-up Work on Veterans Taking Correspondence Train- ing (B-114859, June 5, 1974). -1 -7 HRD-76-171

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