[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 34, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 34CFR460.1]

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                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION
 
  CHAPTER IV--OFFICE OF VOCATIONAL AND ADULT EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF 
                                EDUCATION
 
PART 460--ADULT EDUCATION--GENERAL PROVISIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 460.1  What is the purpose of the Adult Education Act?

    The purpose of the Adult Education Act (the Act) is to assist the 
States to--
    (a) Improve educational opportunities for adults who lack the level 
of literacy skills requisite to effective citizenship and productive 
employment;
    (b) Expand and improve the current system for delivering adult 
education services, including delivery of these services to 
educationally disadvantaged adults; and
    (c) Encourage the establishment of adult education programs that 
will--
    (1) Enable adults to acquire the basic educational skills necessary 
for literate functioning;
    (2) Provide adults with sufficient basic education to enable them to 
benefit from job training and retraining programs and obtain and retain 
productive employment so that they might more fully enjoy the benefits 
and responsibilities of citizenship; and
    (3) Enable adults who so desire to continue their education to at 
least the level of completion of secondary school.

(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1201)