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Recommendations
for Senate WIA Reauthorization: Title I Provisions Affecting Youth
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Another link to the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (Title II of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 - the part of the legislation that most affects adult education), is online at http://www.otan.dni.us/webfarm/stateplan/link.html
Relevant information may be found at the National Adult Educational Professional Development Consortium. To obtain a hard copy of the Workforce Investment Act or any other recent or pending federal legislation through the House Document Room, call 202-226-5200. For the Workforce Investment Act, request Public Law 105-220. You can also access federal legislation and summaries of it on-line through LINCS. (thanks to Alice Johnson for posting this on the NLA listserv.)
As part of the Workforce Investment Act, each state is required to submit either a one-year transitional plan leading to a more defined 5 year plan, or one five year plan - due to the federal government in April, 1999. Rhode Island is in the process of developing such a plan; as it becomes available, it will be published here. Interested practitioners are encouraged to contact LR/RI or Bob Mason, State Director of Adult Education (401) 222-4600, ext. 12180.
[From Thursday Notes, A Weekly Fact Sheet on Adult Education Issues From the Desk of Ronald S. Pugsley Director, Division of Adult Education and Literacy Office of Vocational and Adult Education U.S. Department of Education, Editor: Sarah Newcomb Production: Rose Tilghman
March 18, 1999 To date, 16 states say they expect to submit unified plans under the Workforce Investment Act either this year or next year. Of those, six now anticipate submitting five-year unified plans in April. They include: Louisiana; Maryland; Oregon; Pennsylvania; Tennessee; and Vermont. Nine are working on one-year transitional plans leading to unified plans next year. Taking this option are: Alaska; Arkansas; Connecticut; Hawaii; New Jersey; New York; Ohio; South Dakota; and Wyoming. California anticipates its completed long range adult education plan will be converted to a unified plan next year.]
The National Institute for Literacy(NIFL site) has its own policy page and compilation of WIA information, including an expanded list of state plans online. LR/RI's list of states follows; check the NIFL site for additional states/plans.
California's state plan , 1999 - 2004, is on line, along with supporting information about the WIA. Other states are sharing information about their plans through the National Literacy Advocacy list. If you have access to email, please subscribe. The list is also archived online at http://www.nifl.gov/nifl-nla/.
Iowa's State Plan, is available in PDF format, at http://www.readiowa.org/. Scroll down to the five year state plan for adult basic education.
Ohio state transition plan for adult basic and literacy education
Rhode Island's professional development/state leadership piece of the RI State Plan, in draft form
Proposed Tennessee State Plan - Adult Education and Family Literacy, Part of Tennessee's Unified Plan Workforce Investment Act of 1998
Texas State Plan for Adult Education and Family Literacy - July 1, 1999 - June 30, 2004
Washington's state plan can be accessed at http://www.sbctc.ctc.edu/OAL/ (scroll down to state plan)
updated September 2, 2006