The remaining state and outlying areas are making plan changes and negotiating performance measures. The Yellow Pages Advertising Council launched a 22-city literacy awareness and volunteer drive last month. The tour culminates in events in Washington on September 8. Grants help local educational groups expand their work or begin new programs among underserved populations.
First priority goes to family literacy programs.
The US is running out of highly skilled workers. Legislation may pass this session. The Post says more than 1.2 million high tech jobs have been created since 1993, but the number of Americans earning, for example, electrical engineering degrees has dropped by nearly half between 1987 and 1997. By February, American firms had hired all the expert workers from other countries that the law allows. Not every adult learner will go on to postsecondary education.