[AAACE-NLA] Re: AAACE-NLA Digest, Vol 21, Issue 24
Gloria Gillette
ggillette at ix.netcom.com
Wed Feb 9 18:07:55 EST 2005
A true lack of critical thinking skills.Too bad so many classes have
waiting lists.
Gloria W. Gillette, Director
Northeast ABLE Resource Center
1800 361 7076
"In a truly rational society, the best of us would be teachers. The rest of
us
would have to settle for something less." Lee Iacocca
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> 1. RE: President's FY06 budget for AELS [faked-from]
> (Brown, Charlene)
> 2. RE: President's FY06 budget for AELS [faked-from]
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> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 17:03:21 -0500
> From: "Brown, Charlene" <cbrown5 at jefferson.k12.ky.us>
> Subject: RE: [AAACE-NLA] President's FY06 budget for AELS [faked-from]
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> Big Government logic.
>
> Charlene Brown,
> ABE Coordinator
> Jefferson County Public Schools
> Adult and Continuing Education
> Jacob Annex
> 3670 Wheeler Avenue
> Louisville, KY 40215
> 502-485-3797
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal Beder [mailto:hbeder at rci.rutgers.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 9:12 AM
> To: National Literacy Advocacy List sponsored by AAACE
> Subject: Re: [AAACE-NLA] President's FY06 budget for AELS [faked-from]
>
> The government [Congress] mandated accountability in the WIA
> legislation. Then the government [OVAE] designed and required
> implementation of an accountability system [NRS]. Now the government [the
> administration] is proposing Draconian cuts in adult literacy because its
> own accountability system was deficient in providing the information it
> says was necessary. What kind of logic is that?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> At 03:53 PM 2/7/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>>Tom, and other colleagues,
>>
>>It looks like the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) thinks Adult
>>Education State Grants have a very strong purpose and design, but don't
>>demonstrate good results.
>>
>>Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART)
>>2006 Budget
>>
>>Department of Education Adult Education State Grants
>>
>>Section
> Score
>>
>>
>>1: Program Purpose and Design (20% weight) 100%
>>2: Planning (10% weight)
>>29%
>>3: Management (20% weight) 67%
>>4: Results (50% weight) 0%
>>
>>Total Score %:
>>36%
>>Total
>>Score:
>>36 Results Not Demonstrated
>>
>>Source: http://www.transparentgovernment.org/tg/news/totalPART.htm
>>
>>David J. Rosen
>>djrosen at comcast.net
>>
>> > Aaace-NLA colleagues: According to the U. S. Department of Education,
> the
>> > budget for the State Grants program that funds the Adult Education and
>> > Literacy System (AELS) for FY 2006 is $200million, a drop of some
>> > two-thirds from $570 in FY 2005. According to the message posted on the
> ED
>> > web site, this was done because the State Grants programs failed the
> PART
>> > analysis, which stands for Program Assessment Rating Tool. Following is
> a
>> > brief note about the PART analysis. More can be found online at
>> > www.transparentgovernment.org/tg/fyo5budget.htm.
>> > Tom Sticht
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > What is PART?
>> > At the center of the Administration's approach to "performance
> budgeting"
>> > is the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART). The PART is a
>> > methodological, standardized and evidence-based evaluation - offering
> hard
>> > data on whether federal programs are doing what taxpayers are paying
>> > for
>> > them to do and assessing whether they are being managed properly.
>> >
>> > It investigates the most important aspects of performance... from
> relevance
>> > to results. By focusing on these various characteristics, managers can
>> > paint an in-depth picture of just what exactly they are achieving, or
>> > if
>> > they are achieving anything at all! The results are presented by OMB as
>> > four different percentages (one for each section of the PART) and as a
>> > categorical assessment ("Effective," "Moderately Effective,"
>> > "Adequate,"
>> > "Ineffective" or "Results Not Demonstrated").
>> >
>> > Each section of the PART is assigned a value at which it is weighted.
>> >
>> >
>> > Purpose: 20 percent
>> > Planning: 10 percent
>> > Management: 20 percent
>> > Results: 50 percent
>> >
>> >
>> > By focusing on these various characteristics, managers can paint an
>> > in-depth picture of just what exactly they are achieving, or if they
>> > are
>> > achieving anything at all. Across the board, the PART asks the same 25
>> > questions of each program. This standardization reduces the
>> > apples-to-oranges challenge of other evaluation systems and creates a
>> > wider source of management guidance for managers to take back and
>> > implement in their own programs. And the fact that PART is
> evidence-based
>> > - requiring proof of the results claimed by program officials -
>> > demonstrates to Congress the successes of the programs and justifies
> every
>> > penny of the budget allocation.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 17:04:00 -0500
> From: "Brown, Charlene" <cbrown5 at jefferson.k12.ky.us>
> Subject: RE: [AAACE-NLA] President's FY06 budget for AELS [faked-from]
> To: National Literacy Advocacy List sponsored by AAACE
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> What if all our professional organizations galvanized a united effort of
> advocacy?
>
> Charlene Brown,
> ABE Coordinator
> Jefferson County Public Schools
> Adult and Continuing Education
> Jacob Annex
> 3670 Wheeler Avenue
> Louisville, KY 40215
> 502-485-3797
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal Beder [mailto:hbeder at rci.rutgers.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 10:10 AM
> To: National Literacy Advocacy List sponsored by AAACE
> Subject: RE: [AAACE-NLA] President's FY06 budget for AELS [faked-from]
>
> To win on this we need more than a "big" response, we need a strategic,
> coordinated "big" response. I would hope that the strategy will come from
> NCL, but if that strategy is to be effective all of us in the trenches
> need
> timely, accurate information. It would be great if one person who is in
> the center of things could post a daily message on this list under a
> specially reserved header such as "urgent info". We would all know to read
> that message even when our email piles up and we could forward it to our
> state associations. Such a mechanism would reduce the information
> overload
> that is likely to develop and would keep us all in the same loop.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> At 05:00 PM 2/7/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>>David and Tom, et al,
>>
>>We need to put the "PART" (program performance) numbers for adult
>>education
>>into context. They did NOT arrive at most of these ratings by evaluating
>>the performance data submitted to the U.S. Department of Education by the
>>state ABE programs. In several cases they simply gave the ABE program a
>>zero rating on the criteria leading to the scores David lists below
>>because
>>the Department's strategic plan does not provide a specific numeric
>>target.
>>For example, they mention that state's report: of the students who had
>>the
>>goal of obtaining a high school diploma or its equivalent, that 1/3 did
>>so.
>>So, some might be tempted to ask, is this "good" or "bad" performance?
>>The
>>rating authority never dealt with this question, instead assigning a "0"
>>because the strategic plan for adult education, also developed by the
>>feds,
>>does not have an "established target."
>>
>>In other words, what some are billing as "data based evidence" of
> inadequate
>>performance is nothing more than a bald attempt to stack the deck against
>>many programs to justify budget cuts. To put it mildly, the claims are
>>incredibly misleading -- they buried state performance under a thinly
>>disguised "technicality" to force an alleged finding of inadequate
>>performance.
>>
>>We cannot and will not let this stand.
>>bob bickerton, MA director of adult ed & NCSDAE chair
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: DJRosen at TheWorld.com [mailto:DJRosen at TheWorld.com]
>>Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 3:54 PM
>>To: National Literacy Advocacy List sponsored by AAACE
>>Subject: Re: [AAACE-NLA] President's FY06 budget for AELS
>>
>>
>>Tom, and other colleagues,
>>
>>It looks like the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) thinks Adult
>>Education State Grants have a very strong purpose and design, but don't
>>demonstrate good results.
>>
>>Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART)
>>2006 Budget
>>
>>Department of Education Adult Education State Grants
>>
>>Section
>>Score
>>
>>
>>
>>1: Program Purpose and Design (20% weight) 100%
>>2: Planning (10% weight)
>>29%
>>3: Management (20% weight) 67%
>>4: Results (50% weight) 0%
>>
>>Total Score %:
>>36%
>>Total Score:
>>36 Results Not Demonstrated
>>
>>Source: http://www.transparentgovernment.org/tg/news/totalPART.htm
>>
>>David J. Rosen
>>djrosen at comcast.net
>>
>> > Aaace-NLA colleagues: According to the U. S. Department of Education,
> the
>> > budget for the State Grants program that funds the Adult Education and
>> > Literacy System (AELS) for FY 2006 is $200million, a drop of some
>> > two-thirds from $570 in FY 2005. According to the message posted on the
> ED
>> > web site, this was done because the State Grants programs failed the
> PART
>> > analysis, which stands for Program Assessment Rating Tool. Following is
> a
>> > brief note about the PART analysis. More can be found online at
>> > www.transparentgovernment.org/tg/fyo5budget.htm.
>> > Tom Sticht
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > What is PART?
>> > At the center of the Administration's approach to "performance
> budgeting"
>> > is the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART). The PART is a
>> > methodological, standardized and evidence-based evaluation - offering
> hard
>> > data on whether federal programs are doing what taxpayers are paying
>> > for
>> > them to do and assessing whether they are being managed properly.
>> >
>> > It investigates the most important aspects of performance... from
>>relevance
>> > to results. By focusing on these various characteristics, managers can
>> > paint an in-depth picture of just what exactly they are achieving, or
>> > if
>> > they are achieving anything at all! The results are presented by OMB as
>> > four different percentages (one for each section of the PART) and as a
>> > categorical assessment ("Effective," "Moderately Effective,"
>> > "Adequate,"
>> > "Ineffective" or "Results Not Demonstrated").
>> >
>> > Each section of the PART is assigned a value at which it is weighted.
>> >
>> >
>> > Purpose: 20 percent
>> > Planning: 10 percent
>> > Management: 20 percent
>> > Results: 50 percent
>> >
>> >
>> > By focusing on these various characteristics, managers can paint an
>> > in-depth picture of just what exactly they are achieving, or if they
>> > are
>> > achieving anything at all. Across the board, the PART asks the same 25
>> > questions of each program. This standardization reduces the
>> > apples-to-oranges challenge of other evaluation systems and creates a
>> > wider source of management guidance for managers to take back and
>> > implement in their own programs. And the fact that PART is
> evidence-based
>> > - requiring proof of the results claimed by program officials -
>> > demonstrates to Congress the successes of the programs and justifies
> every
>> > penny of the budget allocation.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > AAACE-NLA mailing list: AAACE-NLA at lists.literacytent.org
>> > http://lists.literacytent.org/mailman/listinfo/aaace-nla
>> > LiteracyTent: web hosting, news, community and goodies for literacy
>> > http://literacytent.org
>> >
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