Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act: intended to comment

RantWoman missed the deadline to comment on this or to exhort anyone else to comment. However, RantWoman has decided to post anyway mainly to help track this legislation and numerous policy innovations.

RantWoman meant to recommend more consistent use of software accessibility standards as one key element of expanding opportunities for people with a wide variety of issues to work on equal terms with others in US society. RantWoman would probably have pointed out that this matters both for people who live with disabilities their whole lives and for people who acquire / develop disability at different points in their lives. RantWoman meant to have statistics. RantWoman did not find time to work on this. Sigh.

Invitation to Comment and Comment Deadline: Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act                                                       

Please submit comments through Friday, August 29, 2014.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) and Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) invite you to submit comments and recommendations to help us implement the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), signed by President Obama on July 22. This new law seeks to maximize opportunities for youth and adults, with and without disabilities, to succeed in postsecondary education and in high-skill, high-wage, high-demand jobs in the 21st century economy. Specifically, we seek your comments to assist us as we begin the process of implementing the amendments to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 that were made by Title IV of WIOA and of the new version of the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA), in Title II of WIOA.

We invite you to comment at the OSERS and OCTAE Blog site http://www.ed.gov/edblogs/ovae/2014/08/12/invitation-to-comment-on-implementation-of-title-ii-and-title-iv-of-the-workforce-innovation-and-opportunity-act/