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1 1 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 260C.41 ADULT BASIC EDUCATION
1 2 PROGRAM.
1 3 1. An adult basic education program is established to
1 4 provide basic educational skills to adults who are twenty-one
1 5 years of age or older and who have very limited to moderately
1 6 deficient literacy skills. A community college receiving
1 7 funds for the program may expend the funds for equipment,
1 8 audio or visual materials, staff development activities for
1 9 the program, development or expansion of outreach or referral
1 10 services to identify and attract program participants, and
1 11 program assessment. Each community college shall submit a
1 12 report to the department of education which includes, but is
1 13 not limited to, an accounting for expenditure of funds
1 14 received under the program, numbers of persons served under
1 15 the program, an assessment of the impact of the program on
1 16 persons served under the program, and an estimation of the
1 17 numbers of persons yet to be served under the program.
1 18 2. The state board shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter
1 19 17A that provide minimum standards for adult basic education
1 20 programs at the community colleges.
1 21 3. There is appropriated from the general fund of the
1 22 state to the department of education for each fiscal year the
1 23 sum of seven hundred fifty thousand dollars for adult basic
1 24 education programs at the community colleges, to be used as
1 25 provided in this section. Funds appropriated in this
1 26 subsection shall be distributed by the department in the same
1 27 manner, utilizing the same formula, as federal funds received
1 28 for adult literacy programs at the community colleges.
1 29 EXPLANATION
1 30 This bill creates and appropriates annually $750,000 in
1 31 funds for adult basic education programs at the community
1 32 colleges. Program funds are allocated to each of the 15
1 33 merged areas, based upon a federal allocation formula for
1 34 adult literacy programs, for the respective merged area's
1 35 community college's expenditure on the program. Program
2 1 moneys are to be spent on adult populations not currently
2 2 served by the kindergarten through grade twelve system, due to
2 3 age restrictions on funding computations, and which are made
2 4 up of persons who have limited literacy skills. Moneys are to
2 5 be expended for certain specified needs under the program.
2 6 The state board of education is to adopt rules, in
2 7 consultation with the Iowa literacy council, setting minimum
2 8 program standards for adult basic education programs in the
2 9 state.
2 10 LSB 3046HH 76
2 11 kh/cf/24
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