Press Alert: Congress Declares National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week 2010

Congress Declares National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week 2010

Thank you to all who contacted their Members of Congress in response to COABE alerts on this issue. We did it! Your contacts made a difference.

The resolution passed the House on a vote of 369-0 under suspension. Congressman Conyers-Michigan, Guthrie-Kentucky and Loebsack-Iowa also spoke in favor of the resolution during the floor debate last night.

Special thanks to advocates in Colorado for their advocacy work with Congressman Polis. Congratulations to advocates in New York, Arizona, Texas, California, Maryland, Kentucky, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina, Maine, DC, Minnesota, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Tennessee and the Northern Mariana Islands who cinched commitments from House members to co-sponsor the Resolution (H. Res. 1472).

If your House Member co-sponsored, now is a good time to follow up with a note of thanks.

More information on National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week will be posted in the NCL Advocacy Blog in the coming days: http://blog.ncladvocacy.org . Resources will be made available to you soon to help you plan celebration activities. They will be posted at: www.ncladvocacy.org .

So Please share the good news, and mark your calendars for September 13 - 17, 2010!

Distance Education

We are currently working on getting a pilot program ready for January of next year, that will allow us to run a distance education program for our students that are outside of the Roswell area.

After our pilot program, we will be able to provide distance education GED and ESL to our students that are able to participate in the program. More information will be posted as soon as we finish our training.

We are also very excited about the upcoming program  and we hope that everyone can participate!