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Education Officials Testify on Bush Administration's FY 2005 Budget to Help Prepare and Train Nation's Workforce
In testimony before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Workforce Training, Susan Sclafani, assistant secretary for the office of vocational and adult education programs, and Sally L. Stroup, assistant secretary for the office of postsecondary education, urged Congress to approve the Bush
administration's FY 2005 budget proposals for workforce educational programs. Sclafani stressed the need for a "fresh approach" to postsecondary and workforce preparation of high school students "if we want to equip all of our people with the skills demanded by our 21st century economy." Stroup's testimony highlighted, among other things, programs that help prepare students to pursue postsecondary education and training.
Learning Disabilities
There are a number of federal laws that apply to educational entities
that serve adults with learning disabilities. These include the "Individuals
with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)", the
Rehabilitation
Act of 1973, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA, and the
Assistive
Technology Act of 1998. These laws, among other things, aim
to assist adults with learning disabilities to reach their educational
goals.
National Reading Legislation
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) has been reauthorized as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (P.L. 107-110). Title I, Part B of this Act includes the Reading First and Early Reading First initiatives, which aim to ensure that all children can read by the end of the third grade.
Proliteracy Offers Congressional Policy Update
Reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act
Senate Committee Strikes Funding for Even Start.
Thomas - Legislative Information on the internet
Acting under the directive of the leadership of the 104th Congress to make Federal legislative information freely available to the Internet public, a Library of Congress team brought the THOMAS World Wide Web system online in January 1995, at the inception of the 104th Congress. Searching capabilities in THOMAS were built on the
InQuery information retrieval system, developed by the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval based at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Click the button below to visit the THOMAS website.
Welfare
Reform/Welfare-to-Work
In 1996, President Clinton signed into law the Personal Responsibility
and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA). This new law
changed the nature and provision of welfare benefits by providing
funding to the states in the form of Temporary Assistance to Needy
Families (TANF) block grants. In 1997, the Welfare-to-Work grant
program was authorized to help states and localities to create
additional job opportunities for the hardest-to-employ TANF recipients,
including those with low basic skills. Congress is currently working
to reauthorize the 1996 law and may change requirements related
to education and training for TANF clients.
Workforce Alliance
The website of The Workforce Alliance ( TWA ) in D.C. publishes regular legislative bulletins on developments at the national level, with analyses and suggested action.
Workforce
Investment Act (WIA)
Enacted in 1998, the intent of this law is to ensure that the
US remains competitive in the global economy by providing workers
with the reading, writing, computing, problem solving, and communications
skills they need to succeed in the workforce, and to provide businesses
with highly skilled workers. Congress is currently working to
reauthorize this law as the Workforce Reinvestment and Adult Education.
Workforce Reinvestment and Adult Education Act of 2003
The House passed HR 1261 on May 8, 2003. The bill amends the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998, and reauthorizes the
Adult Education and Family Literacy Act and the
National Institute for Literacy.
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