TAACCCT Goals, Design, and Evaluation

The Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant program is a $2 billion federal workforce investment aimed at helping community colleges across the nation increase their capacity to provide education and training programs for in-demand jobs. This brief is one of...

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Published in:Policy File 2017
Main Authors: Mikelson, Kelly S, Eyster, Lauren, Durham, Christin, Cohen, Elissa
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
Budgets/Expenditures
Education
Government
Labor force/Employment
Urban Institute
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Summary:The Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant program is a $2 billion federal workforce investment aimed at helping community colleges across the nation increase their capacity to provide education and training programs for in-demand jobs. This brief is one of four briefs from the national evaluation of the TAACCCT grants produced by The Urban Institute under contract to the US Department of Labor. The four briefs discuss 1) TAACCCT grant goals, design, and evaluation; 2) TAACCCT grantee characteristics; 3) TAACCCT grant approaches, industries, and partnerships; and 4) early results from the TAACCCT grants. Congress authorized the TAACCCT grant program as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to increase the capacity of community colleges to meet local and regional labor demand for a skilled workforce. The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, signed in March 2010, provided the TAACCCT program with nearly $2 billion in funding over fiscal years 2011-14, or approximately $500 million annually over four rounds of grants. DOL, which administers the grants, funded a total of 256 three- to four-year grants to institutions of higher education offering programs that can be completed in two years or less.