There were four (4) rounds of TAACCCT
grants originally included under this approved PRA package, and the
fourth and final round of grants is still active. ETA requires
grantees to submit Quarterly Progress Reports with a narrative
summary each quarter. Every fourth quarter, grantees submit an
Annual Performance Report with standardized outcome measures that
will include aggregate data for program participants for the
following ten outcome measures: unique participants
served/enrolled; total number of participants who have completed a
grant-funded program of study; total number still retained in their
programs of study; total number retained in other education
programs; total number of credit hours completed; total number of
earned credentials; total number pursuing further education after
program of study completion; total number employed after program of
study completion; total number retained in employment after program
of study completion; and the total number of those employed at
enrollment who receive a wage increase post-enrollment. The data
collection is also designed to help ETA and grantees assess
progress made against the grant statements of work, or grant plans,
as submitted to ETA during consideration for funding. The
descriptions of capacity-building, activities, and deliverables in
the Quarterly Progress Report allows grantees flexibility to show
successes or challenges against their own unique programs. In
addition, ETA requires standard quantitative data collection in
order to help monitor participants served and outcomes achieved
across grants in a similar way. ETA requires grantees to collect
and report on the common performance measures that are applied
across other programs administered by ETA. The common measures help
to describe the core purposes of related investments: How many
people found jobs? Did people stay employed? What were the average
earnings?
US Code:
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USC 2372a Name of Law: Trade and Globalization Adjustment
Assistance Act of 2009
Because three of the four
rounds of TAACCCT grants have ended, and the fourth round will have
only one quarterly progress report and one annual performance
report left to submit during the extension, the burden has been
reduced. The new totals have changed from 848,032 annual responses
to 86,818 total annual responses, and from 66,390 burden hours to
13,638 burden hours.
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Walter Parker 202 693-2778
parker.walter@dol.gov
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