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Direct linkPrins, Esther; Gungor, Ramazan – Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 2011
This article examines the consequences of two concurrent policy changes for family literacy programs in Pennsylvania: (1) the transition from federal (Even Start) to state funding and (2) the elimination of adult education as a work activity for welfare recipients over 22 years of age. Using qualitative data from 10 family literacy programs, the…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Welfare Recipients, Public Policy, Family Programs
Download full textPrins, Esther; Gungor, Ramazan – Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy, 2008
Due to federal budget cuts in 2005-06, 11 family literacy programs in Pennsylvania switched from federal Even Start to state (Act 143) funding. Simultaneously, state welfare requirements stipulated that in most circumstances adult education is not an allowable work activity for welfare recipients over age 20. This study examined how these policy…
Descriptors: State Standards, Geographic Location, Student Recruitment, Family Literacy
Pennsylvania Association for Adult Continuing Education, Harrisburg, PA. – 1981
In Pennsylvania where 30 percent of the adult population is functionally illiterate and another 24 percent has only marginal competence, no state funds are appropriated for adult basic education and general educational development (ABE/GED) programs. All programs are supported by federal aid. Information shows that economic revitalization and a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Economic Development
