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DC Adult Learners and Advocates Save Adult Education from Cuts
Summer 2010

  Adult learners, practitioners, and community members banned together with the Save Our Safety Net Campaign to fully restore adult education funding and to “save” many social services from cuts. According to Ben Merrion, DC Learns volunteer and adult literacy advocate, “In early April we found out that Mayor Fenty’s budget proposed to cut to adult education by $965,000. The District currently funds adult education at less than $5 million, so this was going to be a very severe cut to the programs offering those services.” Read more about how they prevented these cuts and fully restored adult education funding. View advocacy photos here and here from Save Our Safety Net. See Takyiah Smith’s testimony from the Office of the State Superintendent of Education’s budget hearing, and watch one of several videos created to save adult education and other social services funding. Way to go, DC advocates!
 

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