As most of you know, the President released his budget this past week. It looks like literacy is doing a little better than last year according to ProLiteracy.
For fiscal year 2014, President Obama has requested level funding at
$595 million for adult basic education and literacy programs as compared
to last year's funding levels. This amount includes $74.7 million for
English Literacy/Civics Education. With sequestration and continuing
resolutions, a level-funding proposal can be considered a modest success
when other beneficial programs are being cut.
The president requested a small increase ($3 million) for National
Leadership Programs, funding it in FY2014 at $14.3 million. The
additional funding would be used for new grant awards to support reentry
education models.
In Florida, it doesn't look like this will make much of a difference, since FDOE is only continuing current grants. If your volunteer program does not have a grant or is not connected with someone who does, you won't get any new money this year.
VALF will be announcing our grant award winners at our annual meeting on May 10 in Captiva.
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