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129345 1 (1986-03-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobactqg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SUKMARY OF TESTIMONY ON S. 2069 WILLIAM J. GAINER, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR U.S. GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE Preliminary results from two ongoing GAO studies on (1) youth employment competency systems and (2) the adequacy of the Department of Labor's data collection system are relevant to two provisions of S. 2069. These provisions require Labor to establish performance standards for the attainment of youth employment competencies and postprogram employment and earnings of adults. GAO's results highlight three specific concerns. First, Labor's data collection system has two serious limitations that raise questions about its adequacy as a basis for establishing performance standards and supporting congressional oversight:, (1) broad definitions of terms reduce the comparability of information among states and local areas and (2) key data elements needed for congressional oversight are not available. ILabor is proposing some improvements to its data system, but certain important problems will still remain. Second, Labor's proposed collection of postprogram data on adults' earnings and employment would provide information to allow Labor to add an adult performance measure that focuses on longer-term results,/which GAO endorses. /GAO believes consideration should also be given to collecting employment follow-up information for older youths, whose employment success should also be encouraged. Third, a performance standard for youth employment competencies could provide a useful measure of program success, but the data Labor is proposing to collect on youth competency attainment will not be adequate to set that standard. The youth competency systems being implemented by the local job training agencies vary widely, as do their definitions of what a youth must achieve to be reported as a positive termination. This lack of comparability across locations could also impact on the appropriateness of distributing incentive awards based on youth competency attainments. Labor needs to provide more detailed definitions of an acceptable competency system and positive youth competency terminations. 129345

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