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

[Bruce BC. Carmel]

Thanks to Pedro and the Team for any help you can give to the cause of
Adult Literacy Programs in New York City. Here is another version of
that letter that allows students to personalize it. This is much more
effective than a signed form letter. We got some feedback that the form
letters do not make much of an impression.  If they can write letters
from scratch it's even better. This is a critical time. Letters have to
go out in the next day or two to have any impact. 

Thank you,

Bruce Carmel

Turning Point 

(And Emergency Literacy Coalition member)

 

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From: glc-bounces at lists.literacytent.org
[mailto:glc-bounces at lists.literacytent.org] On Behalf Of pedro fulgencio
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 5:39 PM
To: glc at lists.literacytent.org
Subject: [GLC] It's Time to Join the Fight for Adult Education

 

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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