Youth Act of 1980

Summary

Youth Act of 1980 - Title I: Youth Training and Employment Programs - Youth Training and Employment Act of 1980 - Amends the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) to extend through fiscal year 1984 the authorization of appropriations for the Job Corps (title IV, part B) and the Summer Youth Program (title IV, part C). Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 through 1984 for the new title IV, part A, Youth Training and Employment Programs established by this Act. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 and 1982 to carry out the Private Sector Opportunities for the Economically Disadvantaged program (title VII). Revises title IV, part A to eliminate Youth Employment Demonstration Programs and to establish Youth Training and Employment Programs to assist eligible youth in obtaining job opportunities and in improving their opportunities for future employment and increased earnings. Requires that, to be eligible for part A programs, a youth must be 16 to 21 years of age (inclusive), and have a family income at or below 85 percent of the lower living standard income level. Allows ten percent of each recipient entity's funds to be used for youths of such ages who do not meet such income requirement but who otherwise demonstrate the need for such services. Includes as eligible youth of such ages those: (1) who are economically disadvantaged as defined under such Act; or (2) in accordance with standards prescribed by the Secretary of Labor, who are handicapped individuals, youths under the supervision or jurisdiction of the juvenile or criminal justice system, pregnant teenagers or teenage mothers, or youths attending target schools under the basic skills program under the Youth Education and Training Act established in title II of this Act. Permits any youth aged 14 and 15 (inclusive), who is otherwise eligible, to receive counseling, occupational information, and other transition services on an individual or a group basis. Directs the Secretary of Labor ("the Secretary") to issue regulations which, as a condition of participation in programs under part A, shall require: (1) a specific period of joblessness prior to application; or (2) a specific initial period without stipend and with counseling, occupational information, career assessment, job referrals, and other transitional services. Directs the Secretary to assure that such programs will give priority to youths experiencing the most severe handicaps in obtaining employment. Applies the same eligibility requirements established under part A to summer youth employment programs under part C, except that otherwise eligible youth ages 14 and 15 (inclusive) may participate if the program includes an educational component. Provides for the allocation of funds among various programs under the Youth Employment and Training Programs and among the States and the territories and possessions of the U.S. Requires prime sponsors to provide employment opportunities, appropriate training, and employment related and supportive services for eligible youths. Subjects funds available for such Basic Programs to specified conditions of use. Requires prime sponsors serving areas which include target schools funded under the Youth Education and Training Act to make adequate part-time work experience opportunities available for youths in such schools in conjunction with programs under such Act, pursuant to an agreement with the local educational agency and in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary of Labor in consultation with the Secretary of Education. Requires prime sponsors receiving equal chance supplemental allocations to primarily use such funds to serve youths residing in communities and neighborhoods which have particularly severe economic and social problems which generate multiple obstacles to the employment and employability development of such youths. Directs the Secretary to provide financial assistance under Youth Employment and Training Programs only to a prime sponsor submitting a youth plan, as part of its comprehensive plan, which meets specified conditions. Provides for review of such plans by the Secretary. Requires prime sponsors to develop and use, as appropriate to individual needs, specified benchmark standards, accepted in the community and based on recommendations from various organizations, of youth achievements needed to obtain and retain jobs. Allows each sponsor to provide both monetary and non-monetary incentives for good performance and appropriate assistance for youths unable to perform satisfactorily. Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) basic criteria for such benchmark standards; and (2) prime sponsor performance standards. Requires each prime sponsor to establish service deliverer performance standards based on program outcomes. Provides that such performance standards be revised annually. Requires prime sponsors to establish youth opportunity councils to assist in the planning and review of youth programs under CETA and under the Youth Education and Training Act. Requires that funds available under Youth Employment and Training Programs to the Governor of each State, be used for special statewide youth services. Provides for special purpose incentive grants to prime sponsors, Governor's special statewide youth services, Native American programs, and migrant and seasonal farmworker programs. Provides for education cooperation incentive grants to prime sponsors to carry out programs developed on a cooperative basis with local educational agencies. Authorizes the Secretary to make arrangements with prime sponsors, public agencies, private organizations, and Federal departments and agencies to carry out innovative, experimental, developmental, and demonstration programs dealing with youth employment problems and the enhancing of future employability for participant youths. Directs the Secretary to consult with specified Federal agencies with regard to such discretionary programs. Authorizes the Secretary to use funds under such discretionary programs for staff training, technical assistance, and knowledge development and dissemination. Prohibits the payment of basic hourly allowances to participating youths under age 18 for time spent in a classroom or institutional training activity, except in special circumstances. Permits the payment of: (1) basic hourly allowances to participating youths age 18 and older; (2) allowances to cover documented costs of program participation; and (3) monetary performance incentives. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe rates of pay, within specified limits, and appropriate time limitations with respect to work experience under Youth Employment and Training Programs. Directs the Secretary to: (1) encourage the granting of academic credit by educational institutions or agencies to eligible youth in classroom or institutional training activities under such programs; and (2) to cooperate with the Secretary of Education to make suitable arrangements with appropriate State and local educational officials for the award of academic credit for competencies derived from work experience and other activities under such programs. Requires prime sponsors to include the summer youth program component as part of the youth plan. Directs the National Commission on Employment Policy to establish a committee on youth to consider problems caused by youth unemployment, make recommendations to enhance interagency coordination of youth programs, and evaluate training and employment policies and programs affecting youths. Directs the Secretary to include a report on programs, activities, and actions taken under title IV in the annual CETA report. Makes technical and clarifying amendments. Provides for appropriate references to the Departments and Secretaries of Education and of Health and Human Services. Sets forth transitional provisions for financial assistance under specified CETA title IV programs. Title II: Financial Assistance to Meet Basic and Employment Skills Needs of Secondary School Youth - Youth Education and Training Act - Directs the Secretary of Education ("the Secretary") to make payments to State educational agencies for grants made on the basis of entitlements created under this title during the fiscal years 1981 through 1984. Sets forth eligibility standards for basic grants for programs operated by local educational agencies. Bases such eligibility upon the relative numbers of children aged five to 17 in a county: (1) from families below the poverty level; (2) living in non-Federal institutions for neglected or delinquent children, but not counted for purposes of a grant to a State agency under this title; or (3) being supported in foster homes with public funds. Sets forth procedures for determining such numbers. Provides formulas for determining the amount of grants to which the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is entitled and amount of grants to which each county in a State is eligible to receive, based on such relative numbers of children in the county and average per pupil expenditure in the State. Provides for payment to the States of the amounts to which counties are entitled and allocation of such amounts by the States to eligible local educational agencies who have submitted an application to the State educational agency. Requires local educational agencies to use such funds received for fiscal year 1981 to assist selected secondary schools to develop three-year plans to improve basic and employment skills. Limits such planning assistance to secondary schools which serve: (1) a large number or percentage of children from low-income families; or (2) a student body of which at least 75 percent score below the 25th percentile in basic skills achievement on an objective test. Provides for ranking and selection of such schools, amounts of planning grants, plan requirements, school site councils, and the use of funds for inservice training. Requires local educational agencies to select from among school plans those schools that are to receive implementation assistance on the basis of criteria established by such agencies, taking into account specified considerations. Requires such agencies to establish advisory councils, with specified representatives, to make recommendations to such agencies on which schools should receive planning and implementation assistance, which services should be provided to nonpublic school student, and to evaluate each school's progress toward program goals. Requires local educational agencies receiving funds under such program to maintain overall expenditures for education and to ensure that schools receiving such program funds receive regular non-Federal and special Federal, State, and local funds in amounts equivalent to those received by similar schools not receiving funds under this title. Provides for complaint resolution and for reports with regard to such programs. Requires local educational agencies to set aside, from funds available for such programs in any fiscal year, a proportionate amount to arrange for the provision of special services to disadvantaged students enrolled in nonpublic secondary schools within their districts, on a basis comparable to those provided to similar students enrolled in the secondary schools of such agencies. Directs such agencies to give priority, in arranging provision of such services, to students enrolled in nonpublic secondary schools with high concentrations of students who are from low-income families or who demonstrate limited academic achievement. Authorizes such agencies to provide such services: (1) directly to students enrolled in nonpublic secondary schools that do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national origin; or (2) through payments to such schools, provided that such schools are not devoted to religious ends or uses and that such schools are subject to specified requirements. Directs the Secretary to arrange for provision of services to such children from withheld funds whenever a local educational agency fails to do so, or is impeded or prohibited from doing so. Allows States or local educational agencies to appeal for review of such determinations and actions by the Secretary. Entitles a State educational agency or a combination of such agencies, upon application for a fiscal year, to a grant to establish or improve programs for: (1) migratory children of migratory agricultural workers or of migratory fisherman; and (2) children in institutions for neglected or delinquent children or in adult correctional institutions. Bases the amount of such grant to each State on the relative populations of such children and the average per pupil expenditure, within specified limits, in such State. Makes two and one-half percent of the funds appropriated for this title in any fiscal year available for such programs for special populations. Requires that such program be at the secondary school level, be designed to improve the basic and employment skills of such children, and meet other specified conditions. Authorizes the Secretary to arrange with other public or nonprofit private agencies for such programs for such children whenever this would be more beneficial to the children, or more economical or efficient, than relying upon State agencies. Entitles a State educational agency, upon application for a fiscal year, to a grant to establish or improve, through local educational agencies, programs designed to improve the basic and employment skills of disadvantaged secondary school students. Bases the amount of such State supplemental program grants upon the relative incidence of children from low-income families in their respective States and upon the average per pupil expenditure, within specified limits, within such States. Makes ten percent of the funds appropriated for this title in any fiscal year available for such State supplemental program payments. Requires that such programs be conducted at secondary schools which meet specified eligibility requirements, regardless of whether such schools are within local educational agencies eligible for other program assistance. Requires States to establish advisory councils to advise the State educational agency on the selection of schools to be assisted. Directs the Secretary to pay, from the amount available to each State for grants under this title, an amount (equal to 25 percent of the total funds to which the State is entitled under the local educational agency operated programs, the State supplemental programs, and the payments for State administration) to the sole State agency for vocational education, to plan and implement, through local educational agencies, programs to improve basic, employment, and special occupational skills of disadvantaged in-school youth enrolled in grades ten through 12 and out-of-school youth aged 16 through 19 who left school prior to earning a certificate of graduation and who are eligible for CETA Youth Training and Employment Programs. Sets forth requirements for States to receive such program assistance and for local educational agencies applications to receive such assistance from the State vocational agency. Makes the provisions of the General Education Provisions Act relating to local, State, and Federal administration of programs applicable to the programs assisted under this title. Requires State educational agencies to: (1) coordinate activities assisted under this title with employment, training, and other relevant activities conducted in the State; (2) provide technical assistance to local educational agencies; (3) disseminate information to State and local agencies; (4) submit State monitoring and enforcement plans to the Secretary; and (4) provide for complaint resolution. Authorizes such agencies to suspend specified withholding actions while there is a compliance agreement in effect. Authorizes the Secretary to pay State administration costs under this title. Directs the Secretary to develop and disseminate complaint resolution procedures, with specified inclusions. Authorizes the Secretary to make program research and development grants. Directs the Secretary to set aside one percent of the funds appropriated to carry out this title in any fiscal year for the purpose of making payments for basic and employment skill improvement programs for disadvantaged youth run by: (1) local educational agencies in Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; and (2) the Secretary of Interior, on behalf of disadvantaged Indian youth. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 through 1984 to carry out the provisions of this title.

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• Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 25 September 1980

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  summary · EN · 5 March 1980

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