To announce the release and availability of the ETA Occasional Paper 2007-13: Implementation and Sustainability: Emerging Lessons from the Early High Growth Job Training Initiative Grants Interim Report.

To announce the release and availability of the ETA Occasional Paper 2007-06: First Findings from Project GATE (Growing America Through Entrepreneurship) – Interim Report.

To provide states with the Program Year (PY) 2006 ACSI Table of Weights and to alert states to the possibility of new customer survey plans for PY 2007.

To announce the release and availability of ETA Occasional Paper 2007-05: The Quantum Opportunity Program Demonstration: Final Impacts.

To announce the release and the availability of ETA Occasional Paper 2007-03: Adult Learners in Higher Education: Barriers to Success and Strategies to Improve Results.

To modify certain procedures under TEGL 21-06 for State Workforce Agencies and ETA National Processing Centers to process H-2B labor certification applications. H-2B visas are for temporary employment in non-agricultural occupations.

To provide all SCSEP grantees with the notice of proposed revised performance measures policy that will become effective at the beginning of Program Year (PY) 2007 (July 1, 2007), and to describe the process for reaching agreement on PY 2007 performance goals for the designated core measures.

The purpose of this Training and Employment Notice (TEN) is to announce two recently released policies from the Interagency Council on Access and Mobility and identify how the workforce investment system can link to a newly devised coordinated human services transportation planning process. These coordination policies were promulgated to: (1) promote the participation of federally-assisted grantees in a locally-coordinated human services transportation planning process which would reduce transportation duplication, increase service efficiency, and expand access for populations that face major transportation challenges; and (2) coordinate resources to maximize accessibility and availability of transportation services by encouraging vehicles and rides to be shared with other federally-assisted programs, customers, or other members of the riding public.

To announce the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Interstate Benefits and Federal Programs Training Conference scheduled to be held September 4 – 7, 2007, in St. Petersburg, Florida, and to encourage state workforce agency staff participation.

To request Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Section 166 grantees to submit nominations for consideration by the Secretary of Labor for appointment to fill expiring terms of membership on the Native American Employment and Training Council (Council).