Grubb, W. N., Badway, N., Bell, D., Chi, B., King, C., Herr, J., Prince, H., Kazis, R., Hicks, L., & Taylor, J. C. (1999). Toward order from chaos: State efforts to reform workforce development systems (MDS-1249). Berkeley: National Center for Research in Vocational Education, University of California.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      Our greatest debt is to the many local and state officials who provided their time and information for this study. They were uniformly helpful in providing not only information about state developments, but also their perspectives about how these changes originated and what they are likely to mean in the future. In addition, many of them read the individual state case studies written in late fall 1997, as well as an initial draft written in spring 1998, checking them for accuracy and balance. There are too many such officials to name individually; we can only hope that we have gotten everything right and have provided a balanced account of state developments.

      We began this research by soliciting advice from several sources about the most appropriate states to examine--that is, about the states that have been most active in reforming their workforce development systems. For their advice, we particularly want to thank Evelyn Ganzglass of the National Governors' Association; Bob Visdos of Network, an affiliate of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC); Esther Rodriguez of the State Higher Education Executive Officers Organization (SHEEO); and Charlie Lenth of the Education Commission of the States (ECS).

Grubb, W. N., Badway, N., Bell, D., Chi, B., King, C., Herr, J., Prince, H., Kazis, R., Hicks, L., & Taylor, J. C. (1999). Toward order from chaos: State efforts to reform workforce development systems (MDS-1249). Berkeley: National Center for Research in Vocational Education, University of California.