As we recommended in our 2003 report, Workforce Florida, Inc. (WFI), has encouraged regional workforce boards to sign Memoranda of Understanding and develop other cooperative agreements with private staffing firms. However, few regional workforce boards have signed written agreements and half of the boards have no formal agreements with these firms.
WFI has continued to pursue a waiver from the federal requirement that only publicly funded merit system employees provide Wagner-Peyser services at one-stop career centers. However, the U.S. Department of Labor has not granted this waiver.
WFI has not implemented our recommendation that it develop performance standards that, if achieved, would demonstrate that workforce program participants are making significant progress over time toward attaining financial self-sufficiency. WFI has referred the recommendation to a working group that is expected to report its recommendations to the board of directors by January 2005.

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Report 03-10
Profile of Changes to Florida's Public Career Education Program Offerings
Report 10-35 April 2010
School Districts and Florida College System Institutions Frequently Change Their Career Education Programs
Report 10-34 April 2010
Florida Should Not Use the Targeted Occupations Lists as the Sole Criteria to Fund Career Education Programs
Report 10-26 March 2010

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