Difference between revisions of "US: Department of Labor - Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant program"

Date: 2010/03/30
Policy Status: Current
Language: English
Jurisdiction: National
Country: United States of America
Institution: Department of Labor, Department of Education
Policy license:

Tags: TAACCCT, DOL, Dept. Labor, Dept. Education, CC BY

Policy Title: US Department of Labor: Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCT) grant program - Go to the policy
Author(s): US Department of Labor,
Description: In order to ensure that the Federal investment of these funds has as broad an impact as possible and to encourage innovation in the development of new learning materials, as a condition of the receipt of a TAACCCT grant, the grantee will be required to license to the public (not including the Federal Government) all work created with the support of the grant (Work) under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CCBY) license. Work that must be licensed under the CCBY includes both new content created with the grant funds and modifications made to pre-existing, grantee-owned content using grant funds.

This license allows subsequent users to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the copyrighted Work and requires such users to attribute the Work in the manner specified by the grantee. Notice of the license shall be affixed to the Work. For general information on CCBY, please visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0.

On April 19, 2013 US Acting Secretary of Labor Seth D. Harris announced the third annual round of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Program (TAACCCT) grant program. The press release states that the current round of grants available is $474.5 million bringing the total 2011-13 program investment to nearly $1.5 billion. A summary blog post of the third-round DOL TAACCCT announcement can be found here: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/37938

Policy Comments:

Note: this is one of multiple US Department of Labor CC BY open policies. See: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/42446

US Department of Labor: Career Pathways Innovation Fund Grants Program (not funded): http://wiki.creativecommons.org/US_Department_of_Labor:_Career_Pathways_Innovation_Fund_Grants_Program

US Department of Labor: H-1B Ready to Work Partnership grant program http://wiki.creativecommons.org/US_Department_of_Labor:_H-1B_Ready_to_Work_Partnership_grant_program