[AAACE-NLA] Questions for Presidential Candidates

[Chris Francisco]

Charlene,

Your questions are absolutely on target in my opinion.  Thanks for sharing 
your concerns!  Be well.

peace,

Chris Francisco  Director
Center for Adult Learning Leadership



At 11:51 AM 5/5/2004 -0400, you wrote:

>Are any increases possible for Adult Education and Literacy?  If not, then 
>how can we continue to educate low-literate citizens while providing 
>English and education services for the increasing numbers of non-English 
>speakers who have no schooling prior to entry into the US?
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>Will there be possibilities for special grant funding to states that have 
>little or no infrastructure to deal with inward migrations of rapidly 
>growing numbers of non-English speaking adults and children?  Kentucky for 
>example is experiencing a 300% growth in just the last ten years-with most 
>of that growth in the last five years.
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>Is $189 per adult learner per year going to be the continued standard 
>allocation to deal with adult learners who were not successful in schools 
>where $6-8,000 per student is the standard?
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>Are we serious about addressing the needs of the low functional literacy 
>levels of the US workforce?  As these voters watch their jobs "outsourced" 
>to foreign countries, they are not being given adequate access to the 
>training and education that will allow them to function in the new 
>"global, knowledge-based economy."  Should we re-focus priorities to 
>address the destruction and disappearance of the American dream for the 90 
>million US citizens functioning at the two lowest literacy levels, and 
>therefore, cannot compete without additional education?
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