United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2004-10-18 monographic deposited born digital 44 p. GA 1.13:GAO-05-4 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-4 P0b002ee1803838f2 f:d054 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-4 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-4 GAO-05-4 Academic achievement Aid for education College students Community colleges Education or training Federal funds Federal/state relations Performance measures State aid Surveys Vocational schools Other Written Product A13073 The goal of most American workers--a well-paying job--will be increasingly linked to adequate training in the coming years. Such training will be key to competing for the 21 million new jobs the Department of Labor projects will be created in the 2002 to 2012 period. People already in, or seeking to enter, the workforce often turn to the nation's more than 1,100 public community colleges and technical schools to obtain needed skills. Nearly 6 million students were enrolled in for-credit courses in the fall term 2000 and millions more participated in noncredit courses at these schools. GAO was asked to examine: (1) the extent to which community colleges and technical schools are involved in remedial education and workforce training efforts as well as academic preparation activities; (2) how state and federal funding support these academic and training efforts; and (3) what is known about schools' efforts to measure outcomes, including the rates at which students graduate, transfer to 4-year institutions, pass occupational licensing exams, and gain employment. The scope of our review included a Web-based survey of 1,070 public community colleges and technical schools, 758 (71 percent) of which completed the survey. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-4/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-4.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-4/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-4.pdf GAO-05-4 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-4 Other Written Product GAO-05-4; Public Community Colleges and Technical Schools: Most Schools Use Both Credit and Noncredit Programs for Workforce Development; Academic achievement Aid for education College students Community colleges Education or training Federal funds Federal/state relations Performance measures State aid Surveys Vocational schools