[AAACE-NLA] Tennessee news

[Jackie Taylor]

Hi David,
  Here is the response from Tennessee. You asked:
   
  1. For the FY that begins in 07 and ends in 08 in your state, in comparison with the previous year, did your state funding (not federal funding) increase, decrease or stay the same.
   
  Increased.
   
  2. If it increased or decreased, by how much?
   
  By $2.5 million
   
  3. And how much is your state (not federal) funding for 07-08?
   
  $5.7 million
   
  This increase was due to a coordinated advocacy effort organized by a task force of program administrators on their own time, using an inside/outside the beltway approach.
   
  Jackie Taylor
  TAACE
  jataylor_1 at yahoo.com
   
   
   
  -----Original Message-----
  From: aaace-nla-bounces at lists.literacytent.org [mailto:aaace-nla-bounces at lists.literacytent.org] On Behalf Of David Rosen
  Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 7:45 PM
  To: carl.guerriere at po.state.ct.us; National Literacy Advocacy List sponsored by AAACE
  Subject: Re: [AAACE-NLA] News from the States: Connecticut
   
  Hello Carl and other colleagues,
   
  The purpose of my question -- one I have asked each year on th AAACE- 
  NLA  discussion list for three years -- is to get a sense of whether  
  or not _state level_ funding for adult literacy education is  
  increasing or decreasing.  As nearly everyone on this list is aware,  
  federal funding for adult literacy education the past several years  
  has not increased.  Indeed, without a massive and well-organized  
  effort from the field, it likely would have been slashed by 2/3.   
  While I hope we will turn that pattern around with the next federal  
  administration, and Congress, and I believe we must continue to  
  organize and push at the federal level, in many states, over the same  
  period of time, there have been gains, even significant ones.
   
  The focus of my question is simple:
   
  1. For the FY that begins in 07 and ends in 08 in your state, in  
  comparison with the previous year, did your state funding (not  
  federal funding) increase, decrease or stay the same.
  2. If it increased or decreased, by how much?
  3. And how much is your state (not federal) funding for 07-08?
   
  I understand that the answer may not always be that simple.  In my  
  own state, depending on whether or not one counts a one-time  
  allocation, the news for the upcoming year could be good or bad. So  
  in answering the question, a judgement call may be needed.  Keep in  
  mind, however, that what I am looking at is the trend, that is, all- 
  in-all, across the country, is state funding for adult literacy  
  education going up, going down, or staying the same?  As far as I  
  know, this is the only way that information is currently collected at  
  present.
   
  And of course, as you have done, Carl, providing additional  
  information is very welcome, and some readers may benefit from this.
   
  So, colleagues from states other than New Hampshire, Rhode Island,  
  and Connecticut, could you provide the news from your state -- as  
  your state funding gone up, down or stayed the same?
   
   
  David J. Rosen
  adult literacy advocate
  DJRosen at theworld.com
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