[AAACE-NLA] White House Executive Order to Strengthen AdultEducation

[Hal Beder]

I thought there already was an interagency working group.  Do you 
know what has changed?


At 10:08 AM 9/28/2007, you wrote:
>David, do you have any information about the impetus for the executive
>order?  Why now??
>
>Amy
>
>Amy R. Trawick
>North Wilkesboro, NC
>atrawick at charter.net
>
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>From: "David Rosen" <DJRosen at theworld.com>
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>Subject: [AAACE-NLA] White House Executive Order to Strengthen
>AdultEducation
>
>
> > AAACE-NLA Colleagues,
> >
> > On September 27th the White House announced that it was establishing
> > an Interagency Adult Education Working Group to "use existing Federal
> > programs that serve adults, including new Americans, to strengthen
> > literacy skills, improve opportunities for postsecondary education
> > and employment, and facilitate participation in American life."
> >
> > The full text of the Executive Order will be found at:
> >
> > http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/09/20070927-11.html
> >
> > The Working Group will report to the President, through the Assistant
> > to the President for Domestic Policy who, according to an article in
> > the Wikipedia, is Karl Zinsmeister.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Zinsmeister
> >
> > David J. Rosen
> > Adult Literacy Advocate
> > DJRosen at theworld.com
> >
> >
> >
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