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Also tagged in: Adult education, Budgets, Children, Communications, Education, Education of the disadvantaged, Educational accountability, Elementary and secondary education, Elementary education, Employment, English language, Families, Family services, Federal aid to education, Job training, Labor, Literacy programs, Parent and child, Parent-school relationships, Parents, Reading, Secondary education, Welfare
Latest Action: 07/09/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities. Bill TextTo improve the literacy and English skills of limited English proficient individuals, and for other purposes. 3/29/2007--Introduced. Families Learning and Understanding English Together Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to providers of family literacy services to improve the literacy and English skills of limited English proficient individuals who are parents or children in families where each parent is at least 16 years old and where at least one child is under age eight. Directs the Secretary to reserve certain funds to: (1) provide technical assistance and training to such grantees; (2) make grants to, or enter contracts with, national organizations that have family literacy service expertise to provide grantees with technical assistance and training; and (3) evaluate and improve such grant program. Requires grantees to meet specified outcome measures.
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Also tagged in: Adult education, Budgets, Children, Communications, Education, Education of the disadvantaged, Educational accountability, Elementary and secondary education, Elementary education, Employment, English language, Families, Family services, Federal aid to education, Job training, Labor, Literacy programs, Parent and child, Parent-school relationships, Parents, Reading, Secondary education, Welfare
Latest Action: 07/09/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities. Bill TextTo improve the literacy and English skills of limited English proficient individuals, and for other purposes. 3/29/2007--Introduced. Families Learning and Understanding English Together Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to providers of family literacy services to improve the literacy and English skills of limited English proficient individuals who are parents or children in families where each parent is at least 16 years old and where at least one child is under age eight. Directs the Secretary to reserve certain funds to: (1) provide technical assistance and training to such grantees; (2) make grants to, or enter contracts with, national organizations that have family literacy service expertise to provide grantees with technical assistance and training; and (3) evaluate and improve such grant program. Requires grantees to meet specified outcome measures.
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