Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id eBKL5X903032; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 16:05:34 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 16:05:34 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <sa40ca50.062@langate.gsu.edu> Errors-To: alcrsb@langate.gsu.edu Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Daphne Greenberg" <ALCDGG@langate.gsu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:1115] New congressional budget X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 5.5.3.1 Status: O Content-Length: 4268 Lines: 43 FYI: Congress has finally approved for the new fiscal year a new budget for adult education. Adult education spending will receive a boost of more than $90 million over FY 2000 funding levels, mostly due to an increase in state grants for adult education to support English literacy and civics education. Some specifics: 1. Funding for the English Literacy and Civics Education state grants was increased from $25.5 million for FY 2000 to $70 million for FY 2001. This increase ensures that all states will receive a minimum of $60,000 to expand and enhance English literacy and civics education programs. States with very high overall and recent immigration will receive more than the minimum amount. 2.The Adult Education State Grants will increase by $20 million in FY 2001. This increase will allow states to build upon current priorities or to provide across-the-board increases for their programs. 3. The Literacy Involves Families Together (LIFT) Act Increases Even Start Funding This stand-alone piece of legislation (HR 3222) was introduced by Congressman Goodling (R-PA) and was approved by the House of Representatives in September. The Senate did not have time to consider this bill by itself. Mr. Goodling, however, did not give up and continued to work with his House and Senate colleagues to incorporate this piece of legislation into the final appropriations bill. In addition to renaming the Even Start program the "William F. Goodling Even Start Family Literacy Program," the new legislative language included in the FY 2001 appropriations measure will: * Allow Even Start to serve children older than age 8 if schools use Title I funds (the federal program for educationally disadvantaged students) to pay a portion of the costs. * Encourage Title I programs with large numbers of children whose parents do not possess a high school diploma to provide family literacy services. * Allow programs that have received Even Start funds for eight years - the current funding time limit - to continue to receive funds at a reduced federal matching rate (35 percent). * Require the use of instructional programs based on scientifically-based reading research in designing services for children and adults, and provide funding to extend important new research on children's reading and reading development in adults within the family context. * Increase Even Start funding by $100 million for a total of $250 million in FY 2001, and reauthorize the program for another five years. The William F. Goodling Family Literacy Institute to be established at Penn State University The final funding measure provides $6 million to the Pennsylvania State University to establish the William F. Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy within its College of Education. The new Institute is mandated to work collaboratively with the College of Education's Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy and the National Center for Family Literacy in Louisville, Kentucky. Through this legislation, Congress directs the Goodling Institute to: * Build the capacity of the field to provide high quality, research-based instruction and program development in family literacy in cooperation with the National Center for Family Literacy. * Develop a sound conceptual, interdisciplinary research base for guiding practice and policy, including the development of a cohort of researchers, graduate students, and fellows who will focus on family literacy research. * Provide leadership in family literacy through professional organizations, state departments of education, policy makers, and the general public, in cooperation with the National Institute for Literacy and the National Center for Family Literacy. More information on the FY2001 budget proposals and final appropriations agreement is available on the following web sites: * U.S. Department of Education Budget - www.ed.gov/offices/OUS/Budget01 * President Clinton's Budget Proposal - www.whitehouse.gov/WH/New/00Budget * Final FY 2001 Appropriations - http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/legislative/appover.html For more information on literacy policy, visit our web site at http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/collections/policy/policy.html or contact Christy Gullion at 202/233-2033 or cgullion@nifl.gov.
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