Act Now!

Restore Even Start Funding
Association of Adult Literacy Professional Developers (AALPD)
Call your Senator today and ask that he or she restore Even Start funding to the 2009 fiscal year funding level of $66,454,000 during floor consideration of the Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations bill.

See this Even Start Background Sheet for more information.

Reauthorize WIA Title II Now
Call your US Senators and Representative today. Tell them to reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), Title II NOW.

Is your Senator or Representative on the authorizing Committee? Check here:

Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee

House Education and Labor Committee

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.”

Deadline: Friday, January 15, 2010

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.

Sign the Petition on Adult Learner Statement of Rights
ProLiteracy invites you to sign the Petition on Adult Learner Statement of Rights. If you agree with what is written in the petition, use the online form found beneath it to quickly sign on and submit the message to your legislators and the President.

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