NLA Info: Thursday Notes, 2/8/01

[Tilghman, Rose]

>From the Desk of Ronald S. Pugsley, Director, DAEL
Office of Vocational and Adult Education
Editor: Sarah Newcomb
Production: Rose Tilghman

February 8, 2001
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New Republicans
Join Senate
Education Committee

Republicans added new faces to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and
Pensions  Committee on January 25. New members include Kit Bond of Missouri
and Pat Roberts of Kansas. Booking a return engagement on the committee was
senior Virginia senator John Warner after a two-year absence. You can read
biographies at http://www.senate.gov Click on "Senators."

House Committee 
Reorganizes

Incoming House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Boehner
(R-OH) recently announced restructuring of subcommittees under his
jurisdiction. Three panels will handle education issues in the 107th
Congress. They include: the Subcommittee on Education Reform chaired by
Michael Castle of Delaware; the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness
chaired by "Buck" McKeon of California; and the Subcommittee on Select
Education chaired by Peter Hoekstra of Michigan. Adult education will fall
under the jurisdiction of McKeon's committee. In the last Congress, McKeon
chaired the former Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Training and
Lifelong Learning, which also handled adult education. Vocational education
falls under the jurisdiction of Castle's subcommittee. For more, go to
http://edworkforce.house.gov 

States' FY 01 
Allotments Announced

State allotments of federal adult education funds are now available from
OVAE. States' shares of federal grant allotments are being transmitted to
State Directors for planning purposes this week. For your state's share,
visit http://www.ed.gov next week.

Funds Available
For Local Services
Could Help One-Stops

If you're looking for funding for one-stops, here are a few sources to try
and their relative shares of local services spending. Federal adult
education funds amount to about 4% of total funds available for local
services such as one-stops. Federal employment and training funds under WIA
Title I, with much larger appropriations, amount to over eight times more.
In FY 00, funds from the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA)
comprised an estimated 3.9% of total local services spending. In FY 01 AEFLA
funds are expected to account for an estimated 4.4% of that spending. Funds
for employment and training under WIA Title I comprised an estimated 34.9%
of local services in FY 00 and are expected to drop slightly to 33.5% in FY
01. Other big contributors to local services among required one-stop
partners are Title I of the Rehabilitation Act at about 21% for both years,
followed by Unemployment Insurance Administration State Grants at about 16%.
Federal vocational education funds amounted to 3.5% and 3.4% of the total
available for local services for those fiscal years. For more funding
options, see http://www.ed.gov/offices/OVAE/AdultEd/InfoBoard/legis.html

Shop Talk
February 8

State Directors, tune in for "Shop Talk" at our regular times.

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A Fact Sheet from the Division of Adult Education and Literacy
Office of Vocational and Adult Education
OVAE Homepage http://www.ed.gov/offices/OVAE/


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