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FYI ------ Forwarded Message From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:00:51 -0500 To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Conversation: REFERENCE POINTS: Secretary of Labor Submits to Congress the Administration's WIA Reauthorization Proposal Subject: REFERENCE POINTS: Secretary of Labor Submits to Congress the Administration's WIA Reauthorization Proposal REFERENCE POINTS is an activity of TATRA, a project of PACER Center REFERENCE POINTS: Secretary of Labor Submits to Congress the Administration's WIA Reauthorization Proposal On April 24, U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao transmitted to Congress the administration's proposed "Workforce Investment Act Amendments of 2007," a bill to reauthorize and reform Title I of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA). The proposed legislation incorporates reform principles such as integrating separate funding streams into a single funding stream and providing Career Advancement Accounts that have been put forth in previous years. This reauthorization proposal also has provisions that relate to serving individuals with disabilities. The list of additional one-stop partners is amended to specify that other programs administered by the Social Security Administration or under the Social Security Act (such as Ticket-to-Work) and certain other programs serving individuals with disabilities may serve as one-stop partner programs. In regard to funding one-stop infrastructure costs, there is a specified limit of the contributions that may be required of the Vocational Rehabilitation program of 0.75 percent of the funds provided for such programs to the state for a fiscal year. For legislative language and a section by section analysis, please visit http://www.workforceatm.org/articles/template.cfm?results_art_filename=wiapr op07.htm * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * REFERENCE POINTS, transition updates from the TATRA Project, features resources and information to help parent organizations, advocates and professionals better serve adolescents and young adults with disabilities, and their families. Administered by the TATRA Project at PACER Center www.pacer.org, REFERENCE POINTS was launched with the initial support from the National Center on Secondary Education and Transition www.ncset.org. TATRA is funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Rehabilitation Services Administration To SUBSCRIBE to REFERENCE POINTS go to http://www.pacer.org/tatra/list/signup.asp To UNSUBSCRIBE, please go directly to http://www.pacer.org/tatra/list/maildel.asp Readers are invited to send information about new resources on secondary education, transition and vocational rehabilitation topics to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: There are no copyright restrictions on this document. However, please credit the source and support of federal funds when copying all or part of this material. ------ End of Forwarded Message
