Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g3OH9Tu01381; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 13:09:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 13:09:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <NCBBKFFJMKFIFAGAFGNEOEAKDBAA.jlee@famlit.org> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Jon Lee" <jlee@famlit.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:996] Clips and Cross Posts X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 3398 Lines: 73 From: Thursday Notes: Division of Adult Education and Literacy, Office of Vocational and Adult Education MA, Verizon Partner To Fund Family Literacy If you're a selected Massachusetts community with an adult education program, you're in luck. The State Department of Education--in partnership with Verizon and the Massachusetts Family Literacy Consortium--is seeking proposals to develop enhanced family literacy services in five communities in the Commonwealth. The Coordinated Family Literacy and Family Support Pilot Project offers a total of $300,000 in grants to help five communities address the range of challenges at-risk families must overcome. The project is expected to build on existing resources and ongoing initiatives to create models for service coordination. Deadline for locales to submit applications is May 31. To apply, see http://www.doe.mass.edu/familylit/rfp.html From: Connect for Kids Weekly--April 24, 2002 There is overwhelming public support for public policies to improve the quality and availability of early learning and care for children, according to a Washington state survey conducted by the Economic Opportunity Institute. Three out of four voters favor providing funds to make voluntary, all-day kindergarten available to all 5-year-olds and voluntary, high quality preschool available to all 3 and 4-year-olds. http://www.epn.org/whatsnew/full_cite/1943.html A recent poll by the KnowledgeWorks Foundation in Ohio provides evidence that the public sees schools as the center of communities, offering more than just academic instruction during traditional school hours. There is significant public support for locating additional community resources and services in local school facilities. http://communityschools.org/newsletterv.2.7.html#poll The Child Care Bureau reports that despite funding increases for child care subsidies, only about 10 percent of the 14.7 million children eligible for subsidies under federal guidelines actually receive them, and subsidy use is typically short and intermittent. Scroll down for the report. http://www.jcpr.org/newsletters/vol6_no2/index.html **Limited English Proficiency Students and High-Stakes Accountability While the number of limited-English proficiency (LEP) students is growing, the inclusion of these students into one-size-fits-all state accountability systems is putting the cart before the horse, argues this report by the Citizens’ Commission on Civil Rights, as many states put standards and high-stakes assessments in place ahead of the learning supports and teacher preparation that are prerequisite for students' success. The authors argue that funding administered by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Bilingual Education and Language Minority Affairs should not be block granted to the states, but should instead be more carefully targeted to critical unmet needs: key research issues, demonstration programs that might advance understanding of promising new approaches, curricula and assessments, and professional development programs that prepare new and veteran teachers to work with language minority youth. http://www.cccr.org/Chapter17.pdf Jon Lee Training Specialist NIFL-Family list moderator National Center for Family Literacy 325 West Main St, Suite 300 Louisville, KY 40202-4237 Phone: 502.584.1133 x175 Fax: 502.584.0172 jlee@famlit.org http://www.famlit.org
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