[AAACE-NLA] 16 States have now reported. Has yours?

[Marcia.Hess@state.sd.us]

No change for South Dakota

 

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Subject: [AAACE-NLA] 16 States have now reported. Has yours?

 

AAACE-NLA Colleagues,

 

So far we have state adult literacy education funding news from 16
states. Let's hear from every state so we can get a realistic picture of
what's happening on the state level in funding for adult literacy
education.

 

The question is:

 

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?

 

Post to this list or email me directly at djrosen at theworld.com

 

INCREASES (10 states)

 

Arkansas: Over a 10% increase of $1,968,475, bringing the state total to
$21,447,968.

 

California: 2.5% Cost of living increase.  Roughly, $700 million. Budget
has not been finalized yet. 

 

Connecticut: one million dollars, nearly a 5% increase, for next year's
budget bringing the state total to $20,596,400 and an additional million
for the following fiscal year

 

Georgia:  $3,261,376. State funding for 07-08 is $16,016,600.

 

Montana: $275,000, nearly a 100% increase. State funding for 07-08 is
$525,000, and this is the first increase since 1998.

 

New Hampshire: 60% increase in state funding in the biennial budget
recently signed by the Governor for FY08,09. The increase brings the
federal/state funding ratio to approximately 40% federal and 60% state.

 

New Mexico: State funding increased for FY 07-08 by $581,000, nearly 10%
increase to $6,415,100.

 

Pennsylvania:  $4.9 million, 26% increase over 06-07

 

Rhode Island: $2 million, 41% increase over 06-07

 

Tennessee: $2.5 million, 78% increase over 06-07, bringing the state
total to $5.7million

 

LEVEL FUNDING (5 states)

 

Arizona: $4.4 million

 

Colorado: $200,000 to fund the Colorado Family Literacy Education Fund
grant program, limited to adult learners who are parents of eligible
children in a family literacy context.

 

Indiana: $14 million

 

Michigan

 

Texas

 

DECREASES (0 states)

 

OTHER (1 state)

 

Massachusetts:  $30,101,348 for ABE in FY '08. Last year,  $29,522,628
which was supplemented by an additional $3,000,000 passed as part of an
Economic Stimulus Bill. If you consider the original amount passed in
the budget, this is an increase of $578,720. However, ABE administrative
and other costs that totaled $2,214,197 in FY '07 have been moved to a
separate Department of Education line item, so the increase compared to
the original amount of the budget is $2,792,917. Compared to the total
including the one-time appropriation from the Economic Stimulus bill,
this is a small decrease of $207,082.

 

David J. Rosen

Adult Literacy Advocate

DJRosen at theworld.com

 

 

 





 

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