Return-Path: <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.9.3/8.9.0.Beta5/980425bjb) with SMTP id LAA23274; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 11:08:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 11:08:18 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <l03110700b486979acfe1@[146.186.96.52]> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Heidi A.C. Watson" <haw6@psu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WORKPLACE:3191] xpost- Thrusday Notes 12/23/1999 X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Status: OR >From the Desk of Ronald S. Pugsley, Director, DAEL Office of Vocational and Adult Education Editor: Sarah Newcomb Production: Rose Tilghman December 23, 1999 ___________________________________ MI's Governor Moves Adult Ed Michigan Governor John Engler signed an Executive Order in October that will transfer the Adult Education Program from the Michigan Department of Education to a newly created Michigan Department of Career Development in January. A new director of the program has not been named. The program currently is moving to a different location. Contact numbers have not been established at this time. Homeless Get Jobs with Help Homeless people told the Urban Institute their top priority was to get a job--the first step to self--sufficiency-according to a landmark survey released this month. The survey provides the most complete picture of homeless in ten years. The report said that, when homeless people get housing assistance and services such as education and job training, more than three-fourths in families and 60 percent alone move to an improved living situation upon completing an assistance program. Contact http://www.urbaninstitute.org Schwab Offers LD Help in Spanish The Schwab Foundation for Learning in San Mateo has a Spanish language website to help Spanish speaking parents and teachers assist children struggling with learning disabilities. Check it out at http://www.schwablearning.org And if you're enjoying some benefits of successful investing this holiday season, you may be interested to know that discount broker Charles Schwab has dyslexia. So does his son. Schwab established his foundation in 1987 to provide information on learning disabilities. Contact 1-800-230-0988. Family Literacy Links to Employers New strategies for developing business partnerships with family literacy programs are available free on the Jobs for the Future (JFF's) web site at http://www.jff.org Go to JFF's new Work-Related Learning Guide for Family Literacy and Adult Education Organizations. It documents winning strategies from the National Center on Family Literacy's welfare reform efforts, including the steps that Careers for Families (KY) uses to build a network of business partnerships. _______________________________________________________________________ Happy Holidays from the Division of Adult Education and Literacy _______________________________________________________________________ A Fact Sheet from the Division of Adult Education and Literacy Office of Vocational and Adult Education
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