[AAACE-NLA] FY07 Requests for State Adult Education Funding

[David Rosen]

AAACE-NLA Colleagues,

• An effort in Maryland to improve the quality of adult education,  
and to obtain needed state resources to accomplish this, has resulted  
in an impressive report: Stepping Up to the Future, Findings and  
Recommendations from the 2005 Superintendent's Panel on excellence in  
Adult Education.  It has five recommendations:
	1) Increase the investment in evidence based adult education,
	2) Establish in statute a state funding formula for adult education  
to achieve results,
	3) Consolidate three existing state funding streams for adult  
education within MSDE,
	4) Encourage workplace partnerships with businesses and provide  
incentives, and
	5) Publish an annual state performance report on the adult education  
program to document accountability.

http://www.marylandpublicschools.org/NR/rdonlyres/FCB60C1D-6CC2-4270- 
BDAA-153D67247324/8366/FINAL2SuperintendentsReport.pdf  (Please copy  
and paste the whole URL into your browser.  Clicking on this long  
link may not work.)
According to an October 27, 2005 Washington Post article ( http:// 
tinyurl.com/bax4q ) the state task force which produced this report  
is proposing that the Maryland General Assembly fund adult education  
with an additional  $26.5 million in increments over four or five years.

• The  Massachusetts Coalition for Adult Education is requesting from  
its state legislature the second year of a $40 million, 5-year  
request an ($8 million increase per year over five years.)

• New York state education authorities are seeking additional funds  
from the state legislature. (What is the amount?)

What is the request to the legislature in *your* state for FY07?  If  
you don't know, please find out.  Your State Point of Contact or  
state professional association advocacy committee ( http://alri.org/ 
Rosen/advocacy/advocacy.html ) or state ABE director ( http:// 
naepdc.org/Members/members_home.html#Connecticut ) should be able to  
answer this question.

When you have the answer, post it so we all know what is happening in  
your state.

David J. Rosen
Adult Literacy Advocate
DJRosen at theworld.com