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Act Now to Dedicate Adult Education and Family Literacy Week 2010 Contact your House Member and ask that he or she co-sponsor H.Res. 1472 dedicating Adult Education and Family Literacy Week 2010. Use the TESOL Capwiz alert to email your House Member or call today! Even Start Funding Alert —From the Goodling Institute and the National Center for Family Literacy ALL FAMILY LITERACY PROGRAMS AND THEIR PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERS SHOULD RESPOND IMMEDIATELY! 1. Write a letter to your U.S. Representative and Senators detailing the services provided to families in your community and the impact of your local program. DO NOT SEND a flood of copied letters. Original messages make a difference. Send your letters and call your legislator's local district office rather than to your representative’s Washington DC office.
2. Personal experiences are powerful. Stress what this program means to you as a teacher or administrator. Have your students write letters describing what family literacy means to them. Ask program collaborators (school district, community colleges, civic organizations, and businesses) to write letters regarding the effectiveness of your local program and what it means to your community. Leaders in your community can also be effective communicators, as well as editorial boards of your local newspaper. 3. Invite your U.S. Representative and Senators to visit your Even Start or other family literacy program. Have them talk with staff, families, and community leaders about the importance of this program. Stress that the families served by Even Start or other family literacy programs have the lowest levels of literacy and the highest levels of poverty. Also stress that this program leads to strong parental involvement in children’s education. Share summaries of information, reports, and local evaluations that reflect the outcomes/impact for families in your community. 4. Please keep us informed. It is important to let us know when you have written and to whom. Send us copies of all of your letters and copies of any responses you receive! We are compiling a list of Congressional Representatives and Senators contacted as part of the "Campaign for Even Start." Contact the National Center for Family Literacy (Tony Peyton at tpeyton@famlit.org) to report any contacts that you have made or if you need additional assistance. Thanks for your help. Increase Funding for Adult Education Action: Please call, email, or fax your US Representative and your two Senators (3 contacts per person total) with this message:
Talk about the need and demand for services in your area. Share the 2009-2010 NCSDAE Adult Student Waiting List Survey and discuss the waiting list numbers in your program or state. Adult learners in federally-funded programs could write thank you letters, stating their adult learning goals and why they are enrolled in adult education. If adult learners include an “Ask” it should be one that they choose, not one dictated by the program. Goal: 400 contacts per Congressional District; 5,000 per state Senator, with smaller state goals of 2,000 contacts per Senator. When: Now. Deadline: May 7, 2010 Feedback: Local or state contacts - to report back results, click here. Reauthorize WIA Title II Now Is your Senator or Representative on the authorizing Committee? Check here: If so, urge them to reauthorize WIA Title II now. If they are not on an authorizing committee, give them this message: “Please contact your colleagues on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and the House Education and Labor Committee and urge them to reauthorize WIA Title II now.” How: Calls, faxes, emails. Contact Information: Locate your US legislators’ contact information using ProLiteracy’s or TESOL’s interactive map. Goal: We need 50,000 contacts made to the Hill on this issue. Please make yours one of them. For Talking Points,Click here and scroll down. Click here to tell us you made your contact. |
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