[AAACE-NLA] However...the Administration thinks an 'effective'rating is o...

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Our services, in general, are effective.  
 
Sometimes they're not.  
 
Like the media, we highlight the bad news.
 
Quite often, failure and success are dependent upon what we are measuring  or 
in what people say we are measuring or what people say we should be  
measuring..
 
"There are things we count that don't matter, and things which  matter that 
we can't count."
 
The decision to cut funding for adult basic education, which would  have 
dismantled the system, was not based on whether or not our services  were 
effective.  
 
Someone saw a pot of money and thought we weren't organized enough to fight  
for it.  
 
"There are two reasons why people do things: 
A good reason and a real reason.".  
They never tell you the real reason."
 
Jose L. Cruz
Chief Executive Officer
San Diego Council on Literacy
_jcruz at literacysandiego.org_ (mailto:jcruz at literacysandiego.org) 


Can  someone explain how the OMB suddenly finds adult ed effective, when
last  year there was a move to cut AE by more than 65% because it was  deemed
ineffective?


> [Original Message]
> From: David  Rosen <djrosen at comcast.net>
> To: National Literacy Advocacy List  sponsored by AAACE
<aaace-nla at lists.literacytent.org>
> Date:  2/12/2007 8:43:04 AM
> Subject: [AAACE-NLA] However...the Administration  thinks an
'effective'rating is only worthy of level funding and  cuts
>
> AAACE-NLA Colleagues,
>
> Despite the OMB  "effective" rating for adult education programs, the  
>  Administration proposes level funding for state grants, national   
> leadership activities and the National Institute for Literacy,   and  
> again zeros out EvenStart Family Literacy.  Perhaps we  can persuade  
> Congress to pay more attention to this OMB finding  than the  
> Administration has given it.
>
> "FY’08:  Adult EdLevel Funded
>
> President Bush’s FY 2008 budget, sent to  Congress on February 5,  
> proposes funding adult education State  grants at the current level of  
> $564.1M.  The budget also  proposes current funding of $9.1M for  
> national leadership  activities and $6.6M for the National Institute  
> for  Literacy.  Congress has the option of increasing or decreasing   
> these amounts.  To see the President’s request for FY 2008, go  to  
>  http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget08/summary/edlite- 
>  section2c.html.  Earlier, the House cobbled together and Senate   
> generally agreed to a held-over FY 2007 budget, minus any   
> “earmarks.”  The existing FY 2007 stopgap budget measure  expires  
> February 15.  After that, under the new 2007  continuing resolution,  
> adult education is level funded, and  Head Start gets a boost of  
> $103.7M to $6.9B for the remaining  months of FY 2007.  Check page 12  
> at  http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget07/07action.pdf "
>  (February 8, 2007 Special Budget Issue, OVAE Thursday  Notes.)
>
>
> David J. Rosen
>  djrosen at comcast.net
>
>
>
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