[GLC] It's Time to Join the Fight for Adult Education

[pedro fulgencio]

Wednesday, June 21, 2006
   
   
  Dear Friends and Supporters:
   
  Greetings!
   
   
  The Adult Basic and Literacy Education (ABLE) program provides educational opportunities for adults who lack a foundation of literacy skills needed for effective citizenship, further education, and productive employment.  ABLE programs are vital for the well being of our community. These programs are held in public schools, learning centers, community-based centers, homeless shelters, correctional institutions, colleges, work sites, and institutions for the disabled. These programs provide free instruction in basic literacy, workplace literacy, family literacy, and English as for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) instruction, and preparation for the General Education Development (GED) test. In this Fiscal Year of 2006, many different basic instructional grant programs were cut short to local providers for instruction and services.
   
  Clearly, no concern for adult literacy in New York City has been prevalent for a decade. However, focused, widespread citywide response has occurred only in times of crisis such as the budget cut of 2005 and the Adult Literacy Initiative were driven by a short-term crisis mentality. Here again, we’re faced with the need to write letters to politicians and elected officials so they can strike to solve the challenge with a bandage aid.  For how long this will last? 
   
  Attached is a letter address to Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott, please have your students, teachers and staff to take action on this issue. Please feel free to tailor the letter to fits your program. Also, as part of this strategy on Thursday, June 29, 2006 at 4PM GLC is setting up a meeting to discuss strategies to address this issue.  We welcome all those programs that were affected by the funding cuts, and others programs to share ideas in how we can help? How we can work together? And how we can support and help to organize. Join us in the fight for adult education!
   
  In literacy and leadership,
   
  Grassroots Literacy Coalition Team
   

 		
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