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Iowa’s Adult Literacy Program Annual Narrative
Report for Program Year 2004
(July 1, 2003 – June 30, 2004)
- Describe successful activities, programs, and projects supported
with State Leadership funds and describe the extent to which these activities,
programs, and projects were successful in implementing the goals of
the State Plan.
- Iowa funded two major projects with the 12.5% State Leadership
funds: (1) the Iowa Literacy Resource Center and (2) the state staff
development leadership project. The Iowa Literacy Resource Centers
serves as a repository for current literacy publications, etc. It
also houses the server for Iowa’s NRS electronic reporting
system and supports the Iowa Literacy website where all reports
and various types of literacy information is housed. The state staff
development leadership project is designed to fund and coordinate
state level staff development activities in the following areas:
(1) NRS reporting, (2) program improvement, (3) GED 2002 preparation
activities, (4) CASAS statewide staff development activities.
- Describe any significant findings from the Eligible Agency’s
evaluation of the effectiveness of the adult education and literacy
activities based on the core indicators of performance.
- The following observations were made relative to an analysis of
Iowa’s benchmark performance goals for Program Year 2004:
(1) there was a significant increase in the number of percent of
enrollees who were pre-post assessed over Program Year 2003 (74%
reported for Program Year 2003 and 85% reported for Program Year
2004), (2) the overall benchmark attainment increased from 81% in
Program Year 2003 to 90% in Program Year 2004, (3) the major area
for program improvement is in the English Literacy instructional
program. The anticipation is that Iowa will show significant improvement
in this area due to the English Literacy pilot project.
- Describe how the Eligible Agency has supported the integration
of activities sponsored under Title II with other adult education, career
development, and employment and training activities. Include a description
of how the eligible agency is being represented on the Local Workforce
investment Boards, adult education’s involvement on the State
Workforce Investment Board, the provision of core and other services
through the One-Stop system and an estimate of the Title II funds being
used to support activities and services through the One-Stop delivery
system.
- The Iowa community college consortium based adult literacy delivery
system has successfully integrated the activities sponsored under
Title II with other relevant adult education, career development
and employment and training activities. The integration has been
achieved through the cooperation, collaboration and coordination
efforts achieved through the Iowa Department of Education, Iowa
Workforce Development and Iowa Department of Human Services and
Iowa Department of Corrections working collaboratively to achieve
common goals and objectives. The Title II component has been identified
as the basic literacy skills component of the overall WIA state
level collaborative efforts. The local ABE Coordinator services
as the adult education representative on the Local Workforce Investment
Board. The state director provides input into the State workforce
investment board. The provision of core and other services is delineated
in the state level MOU (attached). A rough estimate would indicate
that approximately 2-5% of Title II funds are used to support activities
through the One-Stop delivery system.
- Describe successful activities and services supported with EL
Civics funds, including the number of programs receiving EL Civics grants
and an estimate of the number of adult learners served.
- The EL Civics grants are used to support the EL population that
are enrolled in civics and citizenship classes. The EL Civics classes
are held in all community college consortium sites throughout the
state. The addition of the EL Civics funds has enabled the local
programs to increase the number of classes to meet the educational
needs of the immigrant population. As a result, the EL enrollment
constitutes approximately 31% of Iowa’s total adult literacy
enrollment. There are approximately 2,200 enrollees in the EL Civics
program.
November 10,
2004
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