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Milwaukee Public Schools Universal Driver Education Pilot Project Evaluation Report, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat
Milwaukee Public Schools Universal Driver Education Pilot Project Evaluation Report, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat
ETI Publications
Under the leadership of Superintendent Darienne Driver, Milwaukee Public Schools introduced a bold initiative to address the driver’s licensing needs of MPS students through a Universal Driver Education program. This report describes the pilot project offering free driver education services to 257 students at four high schools in spring and summer of 2016. The project successfully targeted subpopulations identified as most in need of affordable driver education, including youth of color, students living in neighborhoods with high child poverty, and students from families with lower-income. The vast majority (98%) of participants passed the state Division of Motor Vehicle written road …
Research Brief On Eti Driver's License Studies, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
Research Brief On Eti Driver's License Studies, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
A critical issue facing central city Milwaukee residents is access to jobs -- jobs that are increasingly beyond the Milwaukee County bus lines. The spatial mismatch between available jobs and job seekers is most acute in low-income Milwaukee neighborhoods, where job seekers have outnumbered full-time openings by a gap of seven to one and only a third of unemployed job seekers have a valid driver's license. From 1998-2017 the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Employment and Training Institute conducted extensive employment research on the importance of a driver's license.
2017 Mps Head Start Community Assessment Data Analysis, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
2017 Mps Head Start Community Assessment Data Analysis, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
The Milwaukee Public Schools Head Start Community Assessment identifies the community conditions and trends that impact the Head Start programs, participating families and children, and potential enrollees. The assessment details the demographics of the family and child populations, birth trends, health needs, housing trends, employment changes, public safety concerns, transportation needs, and child care services in the neighborhoods with Head Start programs. This report prepared by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Employment and Training Institute (UWM-ETI) includes analysis of annual birth data, health, housing and social service records and administrative files from the Milwaukee health, police and assessor’s departments; county sheriff’s …
The Dmv Class Of 2016: Readiness Of Milwaukee 18-Year-Olds For Employment, Citizenship And Adulthood, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat
The Dmv Class Of 2016: Readiness Of Milwaukee 18-Year-Olds For Employment, Citizenship And Adulthood, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat
ETI Publications
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Employment and Training Institute examined the driver’s license status of Wisconsin youth aged eighteen as of January 1, 2016, using license records from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation Division of Motor Vehicles. Only 30% of Milwaukee eighteen-year-olds had a driver’s license (probationary or regular), compared to more than twice that rate (66%) for eighteen-year-olds statewide. Stark differences were seen in Wisconsin driver’s licensing rates by race/ethnicity, neighborhood levels of child poverty, and zipcodes with concentrations of “working poor” families. Disparate licensing rates give suburban and exurban youth in the Milwaukee metropolitan area a head start over …
Research Brief On Eti Neighborhood Indicators Studies, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
Research Brief On Eti Neighborhood Indicators Studies, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
The Milwaukee neighborhood indicators reports were developed by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Employment and Training Institute with funding from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation and the City of Milwaukee to provide independent, timely and ongoing assessment tools to measure short-term and long-term progress toward improving economic and employment well-being of families in central city Milwaukee neighborhoods. Indicators tracked changes by neighborhood since 1993, prior to the beginning of state and federal welfare payment cuts, and demonstrate the advantages of using administrative and institutional databases to measure dimensions of urban life. In 2001 the Brookings Institution identified the ETI neighborhood indicators approach …
Research Brief On Eti Prison Studies, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
Research Brief On Eti Prison Studies, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Employment and Training Institute worked with the Wisconsin Department of Corrections and state Department of Public Instruction in the 1980s to improve educational programs at state correctional facilities incarcerating juveniles. In the 1990s ETI assisted the Milwaukee County Executive’s Youth Initiative to identify youth populations in need of intervention if future incarceration was to be prevented. From 2007 to 2016 ETI research and technical assistance focused on employment needs of Milwaukee County adult males who had been incarcerated in Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) facilities.
Research Brief On Eti Child Care Studies, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
Research Brief On Eti Child Care Studies, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
Employment and Training Institute surveys of central city Milwaukee workers consistently identified two areas as barriers to employment: child care and transportation to jobs. The Institute studied child care issues in-depth over 20 years to assist Milwaukee County in effectively addressing employment needs of unemployed and underutilized workers.
Licensing Student Drivers In Wisconsin: Building Assets In Employment And Adulthood, John Pawasarat
Licensing Student Drivers In Wisconsin: Building Assets In Employment And Adulthood, John Pawasarat
ETI Publications
This technical assistance paper for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction analyzes state Department of Transportation driver’s license files in order to assess the numbers of Wisconsin youth reaching adulthood with a driver’s license and to estimate the numbers of unlicensed youth in each of the 72 Wisconsin counties and 12 Cooperative Educational Service Agency (CESA) districts. The data is aiding DPI in considering whether expanded state financial support and programming for driver education and licensing of school-age youth could increase the skills of Wisconsin youth at the critical period of their lives when they are entering the labor force, …
Employment And Training Institute Community Engagement Report: 2013-2016, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat
Employment And Training Institute Community Engagement Report: 2013-2016, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat
ETI Publications
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Employment and Training Institute was established in 1978 to address the workforce and education needs of low-income and unemployed workers and their families through applied research, policy development, community education, and technical assistance. This paper summarizes the community engagement work of the Employment and Training Institute in 2013 through 2016. The work focused on employment, education, race and poverty issues facing the city and state, including mass incarceration of black males, prison and jail barriers to employment, driver’s license needs of workers and teens, poverty and limited job opportunities impacting central city families, apprenticeship opportunities for …
Cited In Milwaukee: The Cost Of Unpaid Municipal Citations, John Pawasarat, Marilyn Walzak
Cited In Milwaukee: The Cost Of Unpaid Municipal Citations, John Pawasarat, Marilyn Walzak
ETI Publications
The Employment and Training Institute collaborated on a project with the Justice Initiatives Institute examining Branch A Milwaukee Municipal Court cases from 2008 to 2013 using records obtained from the Milwaukee Municipal Court and the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office and focusing on the population incarcerated for municipal ordinance violations. A majority of those jailed for failure to pay municipal judgments were not employed at the time of booking. Municipal courts often denied Wisconsin residents unable to pay or delinquent in paying court judgments for municipal citations their right to drive for two years -- jeopardizing workers’ employment options and placing …
Driver's License Issues And Recommendations, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
Driver's License Issues And Recommendations, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
This presentation by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Employment and Training Institute identifies public policies and practices creating obstacles for licensing of youth and workers in Wisconsin and examines racial/ethnic variations in licensing rates. The impacts of driver’s license suspensions issued by courts for failure to pay fines and forfeitures are graphed and mapped for subpopulations in Milwaukee County. Recommendations are offered to further universal driver education, licensing recovery efforts, limiting court use of license suspensions to collect fees and debts, and criminal justice reforms.
2015 Centro Hispano Head Start Community Needs Assessment, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
2015 Centro Hispano Head Start Community Needs Assessment, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Employment and Training Institute prepared a Head Start Community Needs Assessment for Centro Hispano of Milwaukee, with a detailed study of conditions impacting schools, families and children in the neighborhoods in the southside target area served by the agency and collecting information on the special needs of Latino youth populations in Milwaukee County. The data are used to improve the planning for and delivery of education and social services to children living in poverty. The neighborhoods served by Centro Hispano are among the most densely populated of Milwaukee County. Data from 59 public and private schools …
Issues Related To Wisconsin "Failure To Pay Forfeitures" Driver's License Suspensions, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
Issues Related To Wisconsin "Failure To Pay Forfeitures" Driver's License Suspensions, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
This paper examines the compounding problems resulting from court-ordered removal of driving privileges for low-income residents in Milwaukee County and Wisconsin as a “tool” for spurring payments of municipal fines, forfeitures and fees (including charges for violations unrelated to dangerous driving). The analysis is based on data from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation Division of Motor Vehicles, the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office, and Branch A of the Milwaukee Municipal Court (i.e., handling municipal cases incarcerated in county jail). Police and court actions taken in Ferguson, Missouri, brought national attention to one suburban municipality’s routine use of traffic stops, arrest warrants, …
Wisconsin's Mass Incarceration Of African American Males, Summary, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
Wisconsin's Mass Incarceration Of African American Males, Summary, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
This two-page paper provides a summarizes the Employment and Training Institute research on mass incarceration of African American males in Wisconsin, the state’s ranking as having the highest percentage of black males in state prison and local jails (according to the 2010 U.S. Census data), and costs of incarceration.
Wisconsin's Mass Incarceration Of African American Males: Workforce Challenges For 2013, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
Wisconsin's Mass Incarceration Of African American Males: Workforce Challenges For 2013, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
Among the most critical workforce issues facing Wisconsin are governmental policies and practices leading to mass incarceration of African Americans men and suspensions of driving privileges to low-income adults. The prison population in Wisconsin has more than tripled since 1990, fueled by increased government funding for drug enforcement (rather than treatment) and prison construction, three-strike rules, mandatory minimum sentence laws, truth-in-sentencing replacing judicial discretion in setting punishments, concentrated policing in minority communities, and state incarceration for minor probation and supervision violations. Particularly impacted were African American males, with the 2010 U.S. Census showing Wisconsin having the highest black male incarceration …
Suspension And Revocation Status Report For Milwaukee County, John Pawasarat
Suspension And Revocation Status Report For Milwaukee County, John Pawasarat
ETI Publications
Driver’s license suspension and revocation records were analyzed for Milwaukee County residents using a series of data files from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. Notable changes were observed in number and patterns of charges. The elimination of mandatory revocations for OAR (operating after revocation) charges, a policy reform initiated by the Center for Driver’s License Recovery & Employability, reduced the number of OAR revocations from 10,124 in 2009 to 64 in 2011. The legislative reforms also led to a very large reduction in revocations for OWS (operating while suspended), which dropped from 5,815 revocations issued in 2009 down to 130 …
Readiness For Employment: Milwaukee Teens Without Driver's Licenses, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
Readiness For Employment: Milwaukee Teens Without Driver's Licenses, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
This report identified challenges facing Milwaukee youth in obtaining driver’s licenses. The State of Wisconsin has discontinued its support for driver’s education while requiring that school age youth participate in a school or commercial driving program as a condition for obtaining their license. Paying for a driving course and maintaining a working vehicle is a costly undertaking for many financially strapped families. Auto insurance rates are high for all teens but particularly for teens in central city Milwaukee zipcodes. Longstanding concerns have been expressed about police in suburban neighborhoods targeting minority drivers in older vehicles – adding further to residents’ …
Drivers License Status Report For Milwaukee County Presentation, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat
Drivers License Status Report For Milwaukee County Presentation, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat
ETI Publications
Presentation for the Center on Driver's License Recovery & Employability biennial meeting tracks changes in state suspension and revocation policies.
Drivers License Status Report For Milwaukee County, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
Drivers License Status Report For Milwaukee County, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Employment and Training Institute reviewed the driving records of 629,222 Milwaukee County residents in the Department of Transportation files, including drivers with current licenses as of January 1, 2012 plus unlicensed residents who received suspensions and revocations from 2009 through 2011. This report details the driving status of county residents in order to identify problems in licensing, suspensions and revocations. Prior ETI reports have shown the driver license to be essential for getting and keeping employment and exceeding high school completion as a predictor of sustained employment.
Third Year Evaluation Of The Center For Driver's License Recovery And Employability, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
Third Year Evaluation Of The Center For Driver's License Recovery And Employability, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
The third year evaluation of the Center for Driver’s License Recovery and Employability was conducted by the Employment and Training Institute. The CDLRE is serving an increasingly difficult population -- with higher unemployment, more referrals from the courts and DOC, and with more legal problems. The CDLRE driver’s license recovery rates remained very high (i.e., 57% for the 3-year period). Over 5,000 Milwaukee County residents received assistance in 2007-2009 for case management or license recovery planning advice. The CDLRE continues to reach the hard-to-serve target populations, with 66% males, 92% minorities, and all low-income. More clients needed legal assistance in …
Second Year Evaluation Of The Center For Driver's License Recovery & Employability, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat
Second Year Evaluation Of The Center For Driver's License Recovery & Employability, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat
ETI Publications
The Center for Driver’s License Recovery & Employability (CDLRE) was established in March 2007 to increase the number of licensed drivers among low-income Milwaukee County residents. The CDLRE provides driver’s license recovery assistance to county residents aged 18 and above, with suspended and revoked driver’s licenses, income at 200% of poverty or below, and having no pending Operating While Intoxicated (OWI) offenses. This evaluation report examines driver’s license recovery rates for 862 participants who completed case management services in the first sixteen months. The employment outcomes are measured using First Quarter 2008 data for clients who completed their case management …
Assessment Of 2007 Client Outcomes For The Center For Driver's License Recovery & Employability, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
Assessment Of 2007 Client Outcomes For The Center For Driver's License Recovery & Employability, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
In 2007 the Center for Driver’s License Recovery & Employability (CDLRE) began providing assistance on a referral basis to Milwaukee County residents with suspended and revoked driver’s licenses. The Center operates out of the Milwaukee Area Technical College downtown campus, with residents referred to the CDLRE by a network of over 25 community agencies, courts, and government offices. The CDLRE contracted with the Employment and Training Institute to provide an independent assessment of the client outcomes for the period from April through December 2007. The CDLRE successfully targeted a very high risk population. All 454 clients completing service in 2007 …
The Driver License Status Of The Voting Age Population In Wisconsin, John Pawasarat
The Driver License Status Of The Voting Age Population In Wisconsin, John Pawasarat
ETI Publications
For this report, new Employment and Training Institute research on interrelationships between race/ethnicity, income and geography for the driver’s license issue is applied to proposals in the Wisconsin Legislature to require state driver’s licenses or photo IDs as identification for voting in elections in the state. The report details the impact of the proposed voter identification legislation on the population of adults 18 and older in Wisconsin compared to the population of adults with a current driver license and current address. An estimated 23 percent of residents aged 65 and over do not have a Wisconsin driver’s license or a …