[AAACE-NLA] RE: AAACE-NLA Digest, Vol 7, Issue 26

[Matthew Scelza]

Hello,

I just posted this issue to our advocacy page on our website:

http://www.caliteracy.org/advocacyawareness/advocacy/capwiz2.html

I'm sending email messages to about 400 recipients of various email lists.  

Peace,
Matthew Scelza
California Literacy, Inc.

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re:  NIFL  (David Rosen)


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Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 13:54:52 -0500
From: David Rosen <djrosen at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [AAACE-NLA] NIFL 
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George, and others,

I think I can answer some of  your questions.

On Friday, December 19, 2003, at 11:17  AM, George E. Demetrion wrote:

> I had just read Jackie Taylor's messages on the NIFL lists and took a
> quick look at the links she had included. On the WIA re-auithorization,
> would someone be able to isoolate and post 9cut and paste) the critical
> passages.

I believe that Jon Randall is planning to do a side-by side comparing  
the House and Senate versions of the WIA Title II reauthorization.

> At this stage can someone spell out as precisely as possible what is
> going on--what issues are on the table, who is pushing what in DC.,   
> what
> kind of time table are we talking about, and what are the critical  
> levers
> that are available to forestall the undesirable action.

The main issue of this campaign -- as described in the postings here  
and on the SAVE NIFL! Campaign Web page at  http://savenifl.org/ -- is  
whether or not NIFL's focus on adult and family literacy will continue.  
  If we get a groundswell of calls, letters and faxes to Congress to  
support the Senate version of the WIA Title II reauthorization, and to  
preserve NIFL's focus on adult and family literacy, we have a good  
chance.  If not, it is likely that NIFL's original, and still valid,  
mission will be radically re-focused -- primarily or exclusively on  
children's reading.  If that happens, we can say goodbye to LINCS and  
the NIFL discussion forums ('listservs"), support to states for  
implementing Equipped For the Future standards, the Bridges to Practice  
initiative to address learning disabilities,  and other adult and  
family-oriented initiatives.  Our already marginalized field will have  
been dealt a national blow.

> I will be happy to contact my Senators, but I think it would be  
> valuable
> to have some substantial sense of what the critical factors are and how
> and by whom decisions will be made.  I would also like to get a grasp  
> of
> what are the basic facts at this stage, or even the probabilities, and
> what may be rumors.

The key, George, is not what national adult education organizations may  
be doing to support this in D.C. I hope we will hear directly from them  
here soon.  It is what is (or is not) happening in the field.  I am  
glad that you will be contacting your Senators (and your  
Congressperson, too, please.) Probabilities? If we get a groundswell,  
we can make a difference.

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Will *all* those who read this, contact their Congressional  
representatives (including Senators) and ask them to support the WIA  
Title II Senate version?
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In the next two weeks I hope to see the names of at least a hundred  
AAACE-NLA subscribers who agree that it is important to preserve  
Congress' original intent for the NIFL in the _SAVE NIFL! Campaign  
Advocacy Hall of Fame. _ That would be a good beginning.

> I think a focused attention to this list for the next month or so would
> be an excellent use of resources.

I agree, George, and believe you will see this focus here.


David J. Rosen
djrosen at comcast.net


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