Selected communities would work to develop strategies and measure progress towards improving lifelong learning and literacy. Create a workplace education tax credit. As an incentive, employers who offered workplace literacy, English language instruction and basic education programs would receive an income tax credit for their employees' educational expenses. These executive initiatives are just that - initiatives. In order to become law, there must be agreement from both houses of Congress on the amount of monies to be expended.
Opinion polls suggest that the American public is strongly interested in issues of education.