[AAACE-NLA] Adult learner leaders and Literacy President

[Jackie Taylor]

Colleagues:
In a recent conversation with Marty Finsterbusch, Executive Director of VALUE, he asked that we consider a broader audience.  Here is an opportunity for adult learner leaders to also raise important questions with Presidential candidates.
 
Please forward or print the message below, and share it with adult learner leaders who:
 
- are involved in adult learner alumni councils;
- have initiated, lead, or are members of state/regional adult learner organizations; or
- who have, in other ways, become leaders in our field.
 
Please do not delay!  Our AAACE-NLA colleague David Rosen asked that we compile a list of questions in two weeks.  We now have approximately 11 days left (that puts us at finishing a list of questions by Monday, May 10th).  Where are adult learner leaders' voices in this initiative?  Let's list their questions alongside ours.
 
Best,
 
Jackie
 
Jackie Taylor
jataylor_1 at yahoo.com

David Rosen <djrosen at comcast.net> wrote:
AACE-NLA Colleagues,

The election of the next President of the United States is important to 
adult literacy education. It is a time to get critical questions from 
the field to the campaigns, to ask the candidates these questions at 
every opportunity, and -- we hope -- to get increasing commitment to 
support adult literacy education.

The organizers of SAVE NIFL would like to launch another effort, 
called Literacy President. Its goal is to increase Presidential 
commitment regardless of which candidate is elected. We are launching 
the effort today, and its initial activities include:

1) Over the next two weeks we would like you to post your questions for 
the Presidential candidates to AAACE-NLA list.

2) In Mid-May We will take your questions and create an online survey 
where you and other adult literacy practitioners and adult learners 
across the country can vote on them.

3) We will take the top 5-10 questions and get them to the Presidential 
campaigns in May or June.

There will be other activities, but we'll begin with these.

Please post your questions now. You can send as many as you like, but 
please try to make them as clear as you can, write in plain English, 
and keep them short if you can.

Let the questions begin!

David J. Rosen
djrosen at comcast.net

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