[AAACE-NLA] Save Literacy Campaign check in

[Eunice Askov]

I hope all of you are also educating your congressmen about Even 
Start (family literacy).  Since Even Start includes adult education, 
a zero budget for Even Start also represents a cut to adult ed.  The 
president has made Even Start the poster child for his domestic cuts 
saying that it doesn't work.  (The follow-up study to the Third
National Even Start Evaluation (2001) is now available at the IES web 
site <http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ies/ncee/index.html>.)  As 
you read this report, you may want to check out the critique of the 
original study that is found on the Goodling Institute for Research 
in Family Literacy policy page 
<http://www.ed.psu.edu/goodlinginstitute/goal_3.asp>.  We have also 
provided another policy brief on the same web page that discusses the 
impact of family literacy as well as a response to the President on 
his proposed zero-funding for Even Start. We hope that these 
resources will be useful to you as you write to your legislators and 
invite them to visit your programs.  It will take a grassroots effort 
to save both Even Start and the funding for adult ed.  Thanks for 
your efforts!  Nickie Askov, Goodling Institute, Penn State

>Hi all,
>
>I called my congressman and reps in DC.  They all are against the budget
>cuts (of course - they are all democrats from Mass), and Kennedy will
>propose level funding from 05.  All three offices are getting inundated
>by phone calls now.
>
>I was wondering what other 'results' people are getting from their
>contact?
>
>I'm worried about states that are not as supportive of ABE as mine.  It
>seems like those states need to be focused on in an extra way.  Has
>anyone gotten word from a rep that they WILL support the proposed cuts?
>marie
>
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