[NLA] Giving the NIFL funding back....

[AWilder106@aol.com]

Dear Marsha,

This is a summary of Christy Gullion's post of July 11, 2002.

1)  1998    $6.56 million/yr., Adult Education and Family Literacy Act

Mandate:    a national resource for adult education and family literacy 
programs    including programs under Title I, Title VII, of ESEA (1965), the 
Head Start Act,     Individuals with Disabilities Act.
    --serve as a national resource for adult education and literacy programs 
    --serve as a national resource for programs listed above which are almost 
                exclusively focused on children

2)  1999    $5 million/yr., Reading Excellence Act
        (originally only for children, Andy Hartman changed this language       
            subsequently.  See below)

3)  2002 (?)    $2million/yr. (LIFT, see below)     No Child Left Behind Act 
(Reading                        First section)
Mandate:
    --disseminate info on scientifically based reading research pertaining to 
                children, youth, and adults
    --identify and disseminate info on schools, local ed agencies, state ed 
agencies,       that have developed reading programs....identify as 
effective....
    --support the continued identification and dissemination of info on 
reading                 programs....essential components...scientifically 
based reading                       research....children, YOUTH, and ADULTS.. 
( The language changed here to              INCLUDE youth and adults as a 
result of Andy Hartman's efforts)

  .     No Child Left Behind Act  (LIFT)

Mandate:
    --research scientifically based
    --research....most effective ways of improving literacy skills of adults    
                with reading disabilities
    -- how family literacy services...best provide parents...skills....to       
                support....children's lit. development. 

This comes to $13.56 million/yr. under three mandates.  More than half goes 
almost exclusively to adult and family literacy efforts.  

For Christy:  Was number 2 folded into number 3?  Renamed? Is it the money 
with number 2/3 that Andy wants to give back?

For readers:  I am sure there are holes in the above, others can fill them 
in, this was a very quick job.  ***Please*** correct what I have written so 
we are all on the same page.  What are the implications of keeping, not 
keeping the $5 million/yr.? What future event would make trouble for NIFL if 
they kept the money?  What a new Board focused on child literacy might do 
with it?  What is the date of Andy Hartman's proposal?  (I need to read it 
again.)

Andrea
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