[NLA] Thursday Notes, 11/1/01

[Tilghman, Rose]

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

November 1, 2001

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FY 2002 Appropriations
Moving Slowly

Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) indicated that the Senate will
focus almost entirely on appropriations measures--including the
Labor--HHS-Education appropriations bill-this week, while also working on
measures related to terrorism. New legislation possibly ready for
introduction this week, would prohibit the Immigration and Naturalization
Service (INS) from issuing student visas to applicants from countries that
sponsor terrorism. The measure also would require schools to notify the INS
immediately when foreign students fail to show up for classes.

Facing Staff Cuts,
CA Ponders EL/Civics

The California Department of Education (CDE) announced October 15 that,
because it is being required to redirect or eliminate 90 staff positions, it
will "postpone the release of " the EL/Civics funds it received last July.
CDE's funding for EL/Civics nearly tripled from $7.65M in FY 2000 to $20.96M
in FY 2001. CDE argues that it needs more, not fewer, staff in order to
manage the rapidly increasing EL/Civics program in a responsible way. CDE
says it "strongly supports the goals of the EL/Civics education initiative"
and will "offer currently funded agencies the opportunity" to continue their
present activities through June 30, 2002 without additional funding.
EL/Civics is one of many programs affected. Contact
<mailto:mweaver at cde.ca.gov>

NCAL to Create
National Technology
Lab for Adult Education

OVAE announced this week that a $2.4M contract with the University of
Pennsylvania's National Center on Adult Literacy (NCAL) will create a
demonstration lab here featuring cutting edge technology for adult
education. Also created under the contract will be a main National
Technology Lab in Philadelphia and a companion lab in Sacramento. Learners
and practitioners involved in this TECH.21 project will become leaders in
applying the latest technology to adult education instruction. Their
leadership will be used to help build technology capacity throughout the
system. Project partners include Sacramento's Outreach and Technical
Assistance Network, PBS, and the National Adult Education Professional
Development Consortium. For more see http://www.literacy.org

Estimates of
Undocumented
May Be Too Low

The number of undocumented immigrants in the US is at least 7 million and
could be as high as 8 million, new figures from the 2000 Census revealed.
The earlier estimate from the Census Bureau was just 6 million. According to
the new statistics, the number of undocumented immigrants has doubled since
1990. Most of the new arrivals from Mexico and Central America were entering
illegally to find jobs in the rapidly expanding economy of the last decade.
See http://www.washingtonpost.com for October 25.

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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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