1. Adult Education Priority:
Will you make adult education one of your education priorities?
2. Economic Self-Sufficiency:
The current adult education system serves approximately 3 million
of the 93 million individuals a year in need of adult literacy services,
with waiting lists throughout the United States. If elected, what steps
will your administration take to increase access for new immigrants, the
unemployed, underemployed, high school dropouts and others in need of assistance?
3. Intergenerational Literacy:
Will you support intergenerational literacy programs (combining adult
education and early childhood education) and other efforts directed at
improving the literacy or academic skills of parents and other caregivers
so they can fully support the education of their children?
4. Workplace Education
Will you support workplace education services in partnership with employers
that will enable currently employed undereducated adults to improve their
reading, writing, math and English in order to compete for increasingly complex jobs?
5. Setting Expectations:
In order to overcome the stigma of adults returning to school, will you use
your bully pulpit to set the expectation that all adult parents, workers, and
community members will enhance their potential by improving their reading, math,
and English skills?
