[AAACE-NLA] Administration's proposed FY 2010 budget for adult ed and family literacy

[David Rosen]

Hi Debbie, and others.

I am not sure if there is a URL for Thursday Notes. (Anyone know?) I  
get the notes weekly as an email subscriber. You could contact OVAE  
and ask to subscribe. The target audience, I believe, is state ABE  
Directors (and their staffs)

David J. Rosen
DJRosen at theworld.com




On May 20, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Debbie Yoho wrote:

> David Rosen, would you be so kind as to post the URL for the OVAE  
> Thursday notes?  Thanks so much.  Debbie Yoho
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Rosen
> Sent: May 19, 2009 3:36 PM
> To: National Literacy Advocacy List sponsored by AAACE
> Subject: [AAACE-NLA] Administration's proposed FY 2010 budget for  
> adult ed	and family literacy
>
> From the May 14th OVAE Thursday Notes:
>
> President Obama just announced his FY 2010 budget proposing Adult  
> Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA) state grants of $628.2  
> million, an increase of $74.1 million over last year’s levels. The  
> FY 2010 state grant funding includes restoration payments for states  
> that were underpaid allotments due to an administrative error in  
> state grants awarded from 2003 to 2008. States that were  
> unintentionally overpaid will be held harmless. The budget increases  
> to $75 million the amount reserved to help states and communities  
> provide limited English proficient adults with expanded access to  
> high-quality English literacy programs linked to civics education.  
> That figure is $7.1 million more than in FY 2009. The new budget  
> also proposes $13.4 million for OVAE’s national leadership  
> activities. The administration is committed to literacy, and has  
> determined that National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) funds can be  
> spent in a more coordinated and efficient manner through OVAE, while  
> eliminating additional costs of NIFL's administration. Funding  
> supporting the National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) would be  
> shifted to the Department in order to create a critical mass of  
> resources for adult education research and training. The president  
> also has made early childhood education a priority through his Zero  
> to Five initiative and made funding available through the American  
> Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The Even Start program, currently at  
> $66 million, would receive no funds. Grants to states for workplace  
> and community transition training for incarcerated individuals would  
> be level-funded at $17.2 million.About half of the savings for next  
> fiscal year are from defense programs, and about half are from non- 
> defense programs.
>
>
> David J. Rosen
> DJRosen at theworld.com
>
>
>
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