Hi everyone, Wednesday, the 7th, was NCL's Public Policy Committee call. For those interested, below are notes from the meeting. Appropriations: Most likely we'll see a CR through the November election; adult ed would be level funded. After November, they may need to pass another CR to get through until the next administration. NDD United generated a sign-on letter to support a no-rider CR - sent Thursday, 8th. WIOA: Noted that most needed in the field is technical assistance related to IET. Workforce boards - some may not be in place until July 1, 2017, which would necessitate waivers for some states not yet able to follow WIOA requirements for funding applications. It's not clear yet whether waivers would be for specific states or all. State directors meeting (August 2016): * Johan Uvin spoke about his vision that adult education would use WIOA to transform the adult ed system and position adult education programs as a key to economic success and quality of life. * Mark Greenberg, HHS, talked about an information memo going out to TANF agencies about their work with adult education through career pathways (only 2% of expenditures fund adult ed) * Sue Swenson, Rehabilitation Services, talked about "building skyways between silos instead of lobbing grenades of blame" * Used the meeting as an opportunity to walk through rules with all states * Manhattan Strategies is doing IEL/CE integrated education and training technical assistance * DOE Policy, Research, Evaluation department (exists between OCTAE and CTE under Johan Uvin) is hiring/has hired a position responsible for "career pathways" which might be an opportunity for moving adult ed/CTE closer together on this issue * EL Civics - states are worried they don't have good models. Judy Mortrude wrote a memo highlighting several career pathway models that utilize Integrated Education and Training (IET) programs for participants at every level. This can be found at http://www.clasp.org/issues/postsecondary/in-focus/clasp-highlights-model-iet-programs PDFs of most presentations from the state directors meeting can be accessed here: https://secure.novaresearch.com/conferences/Payment/ASDM2016/presentations.cfm Perkins/CTE: - up for possible reauthorization in September. Bipartisan support on passing. Congress is working on a bill now. Can this be accomplished in 3 weeks? Or, done in a lame duck session after the election? Senator Reed plans to submit an amendment that strengthens language around adult education. NCL meeting on Sept. 27 - possible agenda topics: -would like to invite someone from WIOA admin to present. -OCTAE - would be valuable for them to go through the highlights of the recent state directors meeting, what they think is important, where technical assistance will be needed. -TANF representative -Panel with other agencies such as TANF, SNAP E&T, etc. that can help fund adult education COABE Hill Day on September 28th. Informational webinar will be held on 21st for those participating. Next PP meeting will be on October 5, 4 p.m. eastern Have a nice weekend! Michele MICHELE DIECUCH | Director of Programs ________________________________ ProLiteracy<http://www.proliteracy.org/> | 104 Marcellus St. | Syracuse, NY 13204 p 315.214.2576 | f 315.422.6369 | mdiecuch@proliteracy.org<mailto:mdiecuch@proliteracy.org> Find us and follow us on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/ProLiteracy/59618669707> and Twitter<http://twitter.com/#!/ProLitWorld>. Help ProLiteracy advance the cause of adult literacy.<http://www.proliteracy.org/give>

Thanks Michele. There have been a couple of new developments since last week on some of the items below. Perkins/CTE: I learned Friday at our CEF meeting that the House is voting on suspension TODAY (Tuesday) on the Perkins reauthorization bill (H.R. 5587) that was approved unanimously by the Workforce Committee before the break. A vote under suspension of the rules means that it is going to pass easily and quickly — this is the process they used for WIOA when it passed by an overwhelming margin. Meanwhile, there are apparently some efforts to get the Senate process going again now that the House has moved. As indicated in Michele’s notes, Sen. Reed (D-RI) drafted a set of amendments a while ago intended to strengthen Adult Education’s role in CTE. Sen. Reed intends to introduce his amendments as a free-standing bill this week, and I strongly recommend NCL members consider sending a letter of support for Reed’s bill when it is released. I will send out a followup to this email in a bit with more details… FY 17 Appropriations The most likely scenario still seems to be that Congress will approve a short-term CR through December 9 and put together an omnibus after the election and pass that during the lame duck session. Senate Majority Leader McConnell took procedural steps on Monday toward holding a vote on a CR with that end date. There are some wrinkles, however: (1) Even a short term CR will require appropriators to find a way to get discretionary spending below the FY 17 mandatory caps through some combination of offsets and/or a smallish across-the-board cut in spending.* So, in slight contradiction to what I said last week, the CR may not exactly be at the current spending levels — it could be at a level that is a tiny bit less. I think with a small program like Title II, for a period of just a few months, the cut is negligible, but I figured it was worth noting. *This is because an FY 2017 CR written to current FY 2016 spending levels would exceed the FY 2017 spending limit imposed by the caps by about $10 billion. Changes in mandatory programs (delightfully known by the acronym “CHIMPs”) and rescissions helped keep the spending score in FY 2016 below the caps, but those changes/recisions expire in 2017, so they can’t carry them over into an FY 17 spending bill—even if its just a temporary CR. (2) As we discussed last week, the problem is in the House. Speaker Ryan was reportedly trying to work out a deal with the Freedom Caucus and other conservative members of the House on Friday. Congressional leaders met with the President at the White House yesterday, and the President said afterward that he was hopeful of “reaching a deal.” (He always is, isn’t he?) The Office of Public Engagement at the White House scheduled a meeting tonight to go over all this so maybe I’ll have something new and interesting (well, at least new) to report after that meeting. CEF’s letter advocating for the short-term CR is attached. You lucky NCL members are receiving this before other CEF members! Jeff > On Sep 9, 2016, at 4:55 PM, Michele Diecuch <mdiecuch@proliteracy.org <mailto:mdiecuch@proliteracy.org>> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > Wednesday, the 7th, was NCL’s Public Policy Committee call. For those interested, below are notes from the meeting. > > > Appropriations: Most likely we’ll see a CR through the November election; adult ed would be level funded. After November, they may need to pass another CR to get through until the next administration. > > NDD United generated a sign-on letter to support a no-rider CR – sent Thursday, 8th. > > WIOA: > Noted that most needed in the field is technical assistance related to IET. > Workforce boards - some may not be in place until July 1, 2017, which would necessitate waivers for some states not yet able to follow WIOA requirements for funding applications. It’s not clear yet whether waivers would be for specific states or all. > > State directors meeting (August 2016): > · Johan Uvin spoke about his vision that adult education would use WIOA to transform the adult ed system and position adult education programs as a key to economic success and quality of life. > · Mark Greenberg, HHS, talked about an information memo going out to TANF agencies about their work with adult education through career pathways (only 2% of expenditures fund adult ed) > · Sue Swenson, Rehabilitation Services, talked about “building skyways between silos instead of lobbing grenades of blame” > · Used the meeting as an opportunity to walk through rules with all states > · Manhattan Strategies is doing IEL/CE integrated education and training technical assistance > · DOE Policy, Research, Evaluation department (exists between OCTAE and CTE under Johan Uvin) is hiring/has hired a position responsible for “career pathways” which might be an opportunity for moving adult ed/CTE closer together on this issue > · EL Civics – states are worried they don’t have good models. Judy Mortrude wrote a memo highlighting several career pathway models that utilize Integrated Education and Training (IET) programs for participants at every level. This can be found at http://www.clasp.org/issues/postsecondary/in-focus/clasp-highlights-model-iet-programs <http://www.clasp.org/issues/postsecondary/in-focus/clasp-highlights-model-iet-programs> > > PDFs of most presentations from the state directors meeting can be accessed here: https://secure.novaresearch.com/conferences/Payment/ASDM2016/presentations.cfm <https://secure.novaresearch.com/conferences/Payment/ASDM2016/presentations.cfm> > > > Perkins/CTE: – up for possible reauthorization in September. Bipartisan support on passing. Congress is working on a bill now. Can this be accomplished in 3 weeks? Or, done in a lame duck session after the election? Senator Reed plans to submit an amendment that strengthens language around adult education. > > NCL meeting on Sept. 27 – possible agenda topics: > -would like to invite someone from WIOA admin to present. > -OCTAE – would be valuable for them to go through the highlights of the recent state directors meeting, what they think is important, where technical assistance will be needed. > -TANF representative > -Panel with other agencies such as TANF, SNAP E&T, etc. that can help fund adult education > > COABE Hill Day on September 28th. Informational webinar will be held on 21st for those participating. > > Next PP meeting will be on October 5, 4 p.m. eastern > > Have a nice weekend! > Michele > > > MICHELE DIECUCH | Director of Programs > ProLiteracy <http://www.proliteracy.org/> | 104 Marcellus St. | Syracuse, NY 13204 > p 315.214.2576 | f 315.422.6369 | mdiecuch@proliteracy.org <mailto:mdiecuch@proliteracy.org> > > Find us and follow us on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/ProLiteracy/59618669707> and Twitter <http://twitter.com/#!/ProLitWorld>. > Help ProLiteracy advance the cause of adult literacy. <http://www.proliteracy.org/give> > > _______________________________________________ > National Coalition for Literacy Members mailing list > Members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org <mailto:Members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org> > To unsubscribe: http://lists.national-coalition-literacy.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lists.national-coalition-literacy.org <http://lists.national-coalition-literacy.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lists.national-coalition-literacy.org>

Quick followup. Here is what the WH legislative affairs folks shared at the OPE meeting tonight: Their understanding is that the Senate will move first (as has been widely reported). They think there could be a bill at the end of the week. That sets up a vote in the House late next week. The vehicle is a legislative branch appropriations bill that the House has already sent over. The Senate will introduce the CR and Zika funding as an amendment to that bill by way of a substitute on Friday, which tees up a vote on Monday. If the happens, they think there is a "high likelihood" the House will accept this; it was reiterated several times that Congress really wants to get out of town ASAP. They think the most likely scenario is that this all gets done by next Friday (September 23). Also, as predicted, The House passed Perkins Act reauthorization legislation today, and by a huge margin: 405-5. https://careertech.org/national-cte-associations-applaud-house-passage-and-urge-senate-reauthorize-carl-d-perkins-act I will follow up on the Reed amendment tmw, hopefully. ALSO, totally missed this, but there was a hearing here today in the House on the SNAP E&T program. Did anybody watch or attend? Jeff > On Sep 13, 2016, at 12:25 PM, Jeff Carter <jcarter@literacypolicy.org> wrote: > > Thanks Michele. There have been a couple of new developments since last week on some of the items below. > > Perkins/CTE: > > I learned Friday at our CEF meeting that the House is voting on suspension TODAY (Tuesday) on the Perkins reauthorization bill (H.R. 5587) that was approved unanimously by the Workforce Committee before the break. A vote under suspension of the rules means that it is going to pass easily and quickly — this is the process they used for WIOA when it passed by an overwhelming margin. > > Meanwhile, there are apparently some efforts to get the Senate process going again now that the House has moved. > > As indicated in Michele’s notes, Sen. Reed (D-RI) drafted a set of amendments a while ago intended to strengthen Adult Education’s role in CTE. Sen. Reed intends to introduce his amendments as a free-standing bill this week, and I strongly recommend NCL members consider sending a letter of support for Reed’s bill when it is released. I will send out a followup to this email in a bit with more details… > > FY 17 Appropriations > > The most likely scenario still seems to be that Congress will approve a short-term CR through December 9 and put together an omnibus after the election and pass that during the lame duck session. Senate Majority Leader McConnell took procedural steps on Monday toward holding a vote on a CR with that end date. There are some wrinkles, however: > > (1) Even a short term CR will require appropriators to find a way to get discretionary spending below the FY 17 mandatory caps through some combination of offsets and/or a smallish across-the-board cut in spending.* So, in slight contradiction to what I said last week, the CR may not exactly be at the current spending levels — it could be at a level that is a tiny bit less. I think with a small program like Title II, for a period of just a few months, the cut is negligible, but I figured it was worth noting. > > *This is because an FY 2017 CR written to current FY 2016 spending levels would exceed the FY 2017 spending limit imposed by the caps by about $10 billion. Changes in mandatory programs (delightfully known by the acronym “CHIMPs”) and rescissions helped keep the spending score in FY 2016 below the caps, but those changes/recisions expire in 2017, so they can’t carry them over into an FY 17 spending bill—even if its just a temporary CR. > > (2) As we discussed last week, the problem is in the House. Speaker Ryan was reportedly trying to work out a deal with the Freedom Caucus and other conservative members of the House on Friday. Congressional leaders met with the President at the White House yesterday, and the President said afterward that he was hopeful of “reaching a deal.” (He always is, isn’t he?) The Office of Public Engagement at the White House scheduled a meeting tonight to go over all this so maybe I’ll have something new and interesting (well, at least new) to report after that meeting. > > CEF’s letter advocating for the short-term CR is attached. You lucky NCL members are receiving this before other CEF members! > > Jeff > > >> On Sep 9, 2016, at 4:55 PM, Michele Diecuch <mdiecuch@proliteracy.org <mailto:mdiecuch@proliteracy.org>> wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> Wednesday, the 7th, was NCL’s Public Policy Committee call. For those interested, below are notes from the meeting. >> >> >> Appropriations: Most likely we’ll see a CR through the November election; adult ed would be level funded. After November, they may need to pass another CR to get through until the next administration. >> >> NDD United generated a sign-on letter to support a no-rider CR – sent Thursday, 8th. >> >> WIOA: >> Noted that most needed in the field is technical assistance related to IET. >> Workforce boards - some may not be in place until July 1, 2017, which would necessitate waivers for some states not yet able to follow WIOA requirements for funding applications. It’s not clear yet whether waivers would be for specific states or all. >> >> State directors meeting (August 2016): >> · Johan Uvin spoke about his vision that adult education would use WIOA to transform the adult ed system and position adult education programs as a key to economic success and quality of life. >> · Mark Greenberg, HHS, talked about an information memo going out to TANF agencies about their work with adult education through career pathways (only 2% of expenditures fund adult ed) >> · Sue Swenson, Rehabilitation Services, talked about “building skyways between silos instead of lobbing grenades of blame” >> · Used the meeting as an opportunity to walk through rules with all states >> · Manhattan Strategies is doing IEL/CE integrated education and training technical assistance >> · DOE Policy, Research, Evaluation department (exists between OCTAE and CTE under Johan Uvin) is hiring/has hired a position responsible for “career pathways” which might be an opportunity for moving adult ed/CTE closer together on this issue >> · EL Civics – states are worried they don’t have good models. Judy Mortrude wrote a memo highlighting several career pathway models that utilize Integrated Education and Training (IET) programs for participants at every level. This can be found at http://www.clasp.org/issues/postsecondary/in-focus/clasp-highlights-model-iet-programs <http://www.clasp.org/issues/postsecondary/in-focus/clasp-highlights-model-iet-programs> >> >> PDFs of most presentations from the state directors meeting can be accessed here: https://secure.novaresearch.com/conferences/Payment/ASDM2016/presentations.cfm <https://secure.novaresearch.com/conferences/Payment/ASDM2016/presentations.cfm> >> >> >> Perkins/CTE: – up for possible reauthorization in September. Bipartisan support on passing. Congress is working on a bill now. Can this be accomplished in 3 weeks? Or, done in a lame duck session after the election? Senator Reed plans to submit an amendment that strengthens language around adult education. >> >> NCL meeting on Sept. 27 – possible agenda topics: >> -would like to invite someone from WIOA admin to present. >> -OCTAE – would be valuable for them to go through the highlights of the recent state directors meeting, what they think is important, where technical assistance will be needed. >> -TANF representative >> -Panel with other agencies such as TANF, SNAP E&T, etc. that can help fund adult education >> >> COABE Hill Day on September 28th. Informational webinar will be held on 21st for those participating. >> >> Next PP meeting will be on October 5, 4 p.m. eastern >> >> Have a nice weekend! >> Michele >> >> >> MICHELE DIECUCH | Director of Programs >> ProLiteracy <http://www.proliteracy.org/> | 104 Marcellus St. | Syracuse, NY 13204 >> p 315.214.2576 | f 315.422.6369 | mdiecuch@proliteracy.org <mailto:mdiecuch@proliteracy.org> >> >> Find us and follow us on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/ProLiteracy/59618669707> and Twitter <http://twitter.com/#!/ProLitWorld>. >> Help ProLiteracy advance the cause of adult literacy. <http://www.proliteracy.org/give> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> National Coalition for Literacy Members mailing list >> Members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org <mailto:Members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org> >> To unsubscribe: http://lists.national-coalition-literacy.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lists.national-coalition-literacy.org <http://lists.national-coalition-literacy.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lists.national-coalition-literacy.org> > <09.09.16 CEF letter on CR - FINAL.pdf> > > _______________________________________________ > National Coalition for Literacy Members mailing list > Members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org > To unsubscribe: http://lists.national-coalition-literacy.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lists.national-coalition-literacy.org