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Summer Action Alert - Act Now
Please phone, fax, and/or email your representatives requesting an increase in funding for adult education in the FY10 appropriation bill to $750 million. Keep your message simple and direct.
Please ask students, staff, volunteers, and community stakeholders to help with this advocacy effort. Identify yourself as a consituent and tell why adult education matters to you.
U. S. Senate Workforce Investment Act Reauthorization Hearing
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Thursday, July 16, 10 am
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The Senate Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety is conducting a WIA reauthorization hearing entitled “Modernizing the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 to Help Workers and Employers Meet the Changing Demands of a Global Market” at 10 am, Thursday, July 16. Click the following link for more information, to see the witness list, or to download testimony. WIA Hearing Information |
MAACCE Advocates for:
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Increased state and federal funding for Maryland, where the need is acute. Current total funding allows only 5% of those in need to be served through combined federal and state dollars allocated to approved state grantee programs and correctional education. Maryland currently invests only $213 per adult learner; the East Coast states’ average investment is $964. Federal funding has been level or slightly less for the past four years.
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Increased learner support at the programmatic level to include more comprehensive and flexible services. These need to include ESL, family literacy, life and job skill development, diploma achievement, transitions to post-secondary education, and skills enhancement for personal goal enrichment.
Quick Facts: Adult Education in Maryland and the Need for Additional Funding
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2009 State Legislative Action
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MAACCE Responds to the Workforce Creation and Adult Education Transition Council Report
The MAACCE Board of Directors supports the work of the Workforce Creation and Adult Education Transition Council and is in agreement with the spirit of the Council’s report for the benefit of adult learners in Maryland.
As a partner, we are committed to further prioritizing and implementing the Council’s recommendations.
We recognize that implementing the recommendations requires significant additional funding.
We will continue to advocate for adequate support to continue and expand exemplary adult education services in Maryland.
February, 2009.
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February 24, 1 pm: Hearing for Funding Formula bill, HB365, Ways & Means Committee
February 26, 1 pm, Hearing for DLLR Transition administrative issues, SB762, Finance Committee |
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Print and Send a Postcard to Governor O'Malley
Help make sure Governor O'Malley understands the value of adult education programs in Maryland. Click the link above and print MAACCE's "Support Adult Literacy and Workforce Education" postcards to share.
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Other Advocacy Information
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Printable Maps: Congressional Districts - 109th Congress
10 Steps To Meeting your Legislator During a
Congressional Recess (word format)
Communicating with your Legislator
TESOL's Interactice US Advocacy
Action Center (capwiz)
Guidance on Advocacy
National Council of State Directors of Adult Education
OMB Watch: Take Action Tools
Project Vote Smart Classroom Resources
Pick your Candidate
Guides adult learners through the process of making educated decisions
at the polls
Public Policy Archives
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