The Framework on Registered Apprenticeship (RA) for High School Students provides guidance from the U.S. Departments of Labor (USDOL) and Education (ED) to the public workforce and education systems on the components of a high-quality RA program for high school students. The purpose of this framework is to provide recommendations on key elements of RA programs for high school students and to encourage greater use of RA and pre-apprenticeship programs for in-school youth at least 16 years old, enrolled in secondary schools. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) sets the minimum ages and occupations in which youth can be employed in agricultural and nonagricultural employment. In nonagricultural employment, 16- and 17-year-old apprentices are specifically permitted to do some hazardous work otherwise prohibited for that age group provided certain requirements are met (see footnote three in Attachment 1). Apart from these exceptions, all other work deemed to be hazardous by the Secretary of Labor is prohibited for 16- and 17-year-old apprentices working in nonagricultural employment. This framework provides an important opportunity for youth to finish high school and continue on a pathway toward multiple career and educational opportunities, such as entering an RA program, earning an associate's and/or a bachelor's degree, and obtaining sustainable employment. The framework seeks to enhance the competitiveness of businesses by connecting youth to work-based learning and developing in-demand skills and competencies.

To announce the release and availability of the ETA National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS) Public Access Data for Fiscal Years 1989-2014 and three NAWS research reports:

• Findings from the National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS) 2000-2009: Profiles of Youth, Parents, and Children of Farm Workers in the United States. Research Report No. 10 (Report No. 10);
• Findings from the National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS) 2011-2012: A Demographic and Employment Profile of United States Farm Workers. Research Report No. 11 (Report No. 11); and
• Findings from the National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS) 2013-2014: A Demographic and Employment Profile of United States Farmworkers. Research Report No. 12 (Report No. 12).

To announce the release and availability of three issue briefs from the current evaluation of the Self-Employment Training (SET) demonstration. These briefs provide lessons learned and implementation issues faced as part of a project piloting self-employment assistance and training services for dislocated workers. The briefs include:

• Case Management for Self-Employment Success: Emerging Lessons from the Self-Employment Training Program;
• The Characteristics and Motivations of Participants in the Self-Employment Training Demonstration; and
• What Does $1,000 in Seed Capital Buy? Emerging Lessons from the SET Program's Offer of Micro-grants for Business Start-Ups.

This Change 2 replaces and makes corrections to the previously issued Training and Employment Notice (TEN) 28-16 to inform the workforce system with examples, best practices, partnership models, and information on how to align resources available under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) to increase services to English Language Learners (ELL) with substantial cultural and language barriers to employment. It further provides information to the workforce system, including partner programs and entities that are jointly responsible for workforce and economic development, educational, and other human resource programs, about how to align their efforts to provide basic career services, individualized career services, and training services.

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announces the release and availability of three reports titled: 1) Green Jobs and Health Care (GJ-HC) Impact Evaluation: Findings from the Implementation Study of Four Training Programs for Unemployed and Disadvantaged Workers; 2) GJ-HC Impact Evaluation: Findings from the Impact Study of Four Training Programs for Unemployed and Disadvantaged Workers; and 3) GJ-HC Impact Evaluation: Special Topic Paper on Standard Error Estimation in Evaluations with No-Shows.

In addition, ETA announces the release of the GJ-HC Impact Evaluation public-use data files, available to researchers, practitioners, and other members of the public, and GJ-HC Impact Evaluation restricted-use data files, available to researchers authorized by ETA, for the purpose of conducting their own analyses with the data related to the evaluation.

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announces the release and availability of a final report, "Exhaustees of Extended Benefits Programs: Coping with the Aftermath of the Great Recession." This report examines the extent to which Unemployment Compensation (UC) recipients collected all benefits to which they were entitled ("exhausting" their benefits), in the context of the Great Recession and the extended potential duration of benefits, at that time; and assesses the outcomes for these individuals relative to other unemployed workers.

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announces the release and availability of two papers from a study of states' use of Workforce Data Quality Initiative (WDQI) Databases to inform Consumer Report Card Systems and manage Eligible Training Provider Lists (ETPL).

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announces the release and availability of the final report titled Evaluation of the GATE II Grants: Is Self-Employment Training Effective for Rural and Older Dislocated Workers?

To announce the release and availability of the Significant Provisions of State Unemployment Insurance Laws Effective January 2017.

To announce the 2017 UI SIDES Training Seminar, being held April 18-20, 2017, in Kansas City, Missouri.