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

[David Rosen]

Amy, Hal and others,

Sorry, I don't know know anything about this other than what I posted.

David Rosen
DJRosen at theworld.com


On Sep 28, 2007, at 2:47 PM, Hal Beder wrote:

>
> 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
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "David Rosen" <DJRosen at theworld.com>
>> To: "National Literacy Advocacy List sponsored by AAACE"
>> <aaace-nla at lists.literacytent.org>
>> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 7:00 AM
>> 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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