Return-Path: <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f3H1L6g23494; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 21:21:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 21:21:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <NFBBIKLPIKFKKLFAOBAAIEIMCBAA.haw6@psu.edu> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "H. A. C. Watson" <haw6@psu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WORKPLACE:132] Thursday Notes 4/19/2001 X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Status: O Content-Length: 3486 Lines: 71 >From the Desk of Ronald S. Pugsley, Director, DAEL Office of Vocational and Adult Education Editor: Sarah Newcomb Production: Rose Tilghman April 19, 2001 ___________________________________ Budget Funds CTCs at $80M at HUD President Bush's FY 2002 budget continues the Community Technology Center (CTC) program at an $80M level through the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Funds are requested for competitive grants through HUD's Community Development Block Grant program to help communities create or expand computer technology centers in low-income areas. HUD's Neighborhood Networks program already has helped create more than 700 computer technology centers in assisted housing nationwide, but had no funding. ED's nine educational technology programs would be consolidated in a performance-based state block grant for which $817M is requested. These Educational Technology State Grants funds would flow by formula to States and would be targeted to rural and high-poverty schools. States would be held accountable for the use of technology funds and would be required to set performance goals to measure how grants are being used to improve student achievement. See http://www.ed.gov/offices/OUS/Budget02/Summary/ Click Elementary and Secondary Education. Muller to Testify on FY 2002 Budget Acting Assistant Secretary Rob Muller is slated to testify April 26 before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. Muller will make the case for FY 2002 funding levels that the President proposed. MA Governor Launches Adult Ed Review New Massachusetts Acting Governor Jane M. Swift (R) launched a exhaustive review of state and federally funded adult education programs last week, following a recent report that her state's workers do not have the basic skills they need to compete in today's economy. The Boston Globe reports that Swift made her first policy activity an executive order creating a task force she would chair. The task force will develop a coordinated plan to meet the educational needs of Massachusetts' workers, better coordinate worker training courses, hold lagging programs accountable, and expand those with the best results. The report, New Skills for a New Economy: Adult Education's Key Role in Sustaining Economic Growth and Expanding Opportunity, which sparked the review is available free at http://www.massinc.org Click Boston Globe story at http://boston.com/dailyglobe2/102/metro/Swift_plans_review_of_adult_ed ucation+.shtml OVAE, Four States, Tackle TANF & Disabilities TANF program representatives from four states--RI, VA, TN, and OR--met with OVAE and Regional Office staff in Seattle recently to develop a training corps for each state on learning disabilities and welfare programs. The partnership aims to increase TANF consumers' success by incorporating disability approaches in TANF service delivery programs. The project is jointly funded by OVAE, NIFL and Health and Human Services,' Office of Family Assistance (OFA) through a contract with the Seattle/King County Workforce Development Council. The four states will eventually partner with other states, serving as both mentors and trainers. Contact glenn.young@ed.gov ______________________________________________________________________ __________________________ A Fact Sheet from the Division of Adult Education and Literacy Office of Vocational and Adult Education OVAE Homepage http://www.ed.gov/offices/OVAE/
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