Efforts in the Congress to rescind 1995 fiscal year funds continue. After President Clinton vetoed that bill, the House took up the question again and passed a second rescissions bill on June 28. Included in the new rescissions bill are complete cuts in funding for state literacy resource centers and homeless literacy programs and partial cuts for workplace literacy programs. So, for now anyway, the 1995 fiscal year budgets for these and nearly 100 other domestic programs remains a question. Reauthorization of Adult Education Act Congress has been at work for several weeks developing bills that will eventually replace the current Adult Education Act.
Several proposals are or have been under consideration.
Among the proposals rejected early were proposals from the US Department of Education and from the National Council of State Directors of Adult Education. These were both efforts to keep adult education as a separate funding stream and to retain much of the current oversight through state education agencies. Management by the state education agency. Serious investments in program and professional development. Leveraging through matching and maintenance of effort requirements.