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Capital Area Training Foundation's Community Technology & Training Center Evaluation Funded in part by a grant from the US Department of Education, the Community Technology and Training Center (CTTC) program has established free computer training opportunities in the community, particularly targeting people who wish to retrain themselves or acquire computer skills in order to work in the technology sector. The broader CTTC effort attempts to involve the many constituencies in the Austin region who share similar computer training/literacy goals and to streamline communication so that the community-wide endeavor maximizes opportunities and allows collaborations to flourish. Using the information technology environment to improve the linkage among all sorts of services and all sorts of communities is an umbrella goal for the CTTC project that informs many of its undertakings. This evaluation, however, focuses only on the programs at the high schools. This young
program is still undergoing growing pains, and one of the goals of the
evaluation is to identify and analyze some of those pains. At the same
time, the program's operations and its successes have also been documented.
As this is the first year of what will be a three-year evaluation effort,
our scope is relatively narrow in this report, but we expect it to broaden
during our second year of analysis. The report documents and evaluates the launch of the CTTC program at Reagan High School in Austin, Texas. It references some of the processes and accomplishments of the CTTC program at its founding site, Travis High School, as well.
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