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 f4VKn1f24536; Thu, 31 May 2001 16:49:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 16:49:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <LFEJKDKEPNGCBIGCPOJLAEEBCAAA.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:186] Thursday Notes 5/31/01 X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 2548 Lines: 52 >From the Desk of Ronald S. Pugsley, Director, DAEL Office of Vocational and Adult Education Editor: Sarah Newcomb Production: Rose Tilghman May 31, 2001 ___________________________________ $32M For CTC Grants Now Available Project applications are being sought for more than $32M for Community Technology Centers (CTCs), the Department announced yesterday. CTCs demonstrate the educational effectiveness of technology in low-income and economically distressed urban and rural communities. The deadline for these one-year grants is July 16. About 170 - 190 grants ranging from $75,000 - $300,000 will be made to a broad range of eligible applicants. These funds are FY 2001 funds remaining in the CTC program which is slated to be consolidated in Educational Technology Grants under the President's budget proposal. For more see wais.access.gpo.gov LVA/Laubach Vote to Merge Boards of Laubach Literacy International (LLI) and Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc. (LVA), signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) this month combining LLI and LVA in a new literacy organization based at Laubach Literacy's Syracuse headquarters. The combined organization will have a new name later this year and will begin operating on January 1, 2002. The merger will allow the organizations to speak with one voice on policy issues and provide adult students with the high quality instruction. For more see: http://www.laubach.org or http://www.literacyvolunteers.org States Slow In Listing Locals Heads up, State Directors. Just 19 states have responded to OVAE's request for lists of local organizations receiving federal adult education funds. We need this information to carry out the Adult Literacy and Lifeskills (ALL) and the Adult Education and Literacy (AEL) studies now getting under way. ALL is a large-scale international comparative look at a range of basic skills linked to social and economic characteristics of individuals across and within nations. AEL will provide information on the basic skills of participants in federally funded adult education programs. If you're among the missing, send the information to rose.tilghman@ed.gov Free Disabilities Manual If you need help with disability issues, you can find some fresh ideas from Illinois at http://www.isbe.net/cfp/PDF/ADAGuid.pdf ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ 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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