Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 9 - Education- Mississippi Community College Board › Part 3 - Programs › Chapter 12 - Adult Education Act Public Law 100-297 › Rule 9-3-12.1 - Adult Education Act Public Law 100-297

Current through June 25, 2024
The Mississippi Community College Board's Adult Education
				  Act Public Law 100-297 policy is as follows:
Statement of Purpose:
It is the purpose of this title to assist the States to
				  improve educational opportunities for adults who lack the level of literacy
				  skills requisite to effective citizenship and productive employment, to expand
				  and improve the current system for delivering adult education services
				  including delivery of such services to educationally disadvantaged adults, and
				  to encourage the establishment of adult education programs that will -
1. enable these adults to acquire the basic
				educational skills necessary for literate functioning;
2. provide these adults with sufficient basic
				education to enable them to benefit from job training and retraining programs
				and obtain and retain productive employment so that they might more fully enjoy
				the benefits and responsibilities of citizenship; and
3. enable adults who so desire to continue
				their education to at least the level of completion of secondary school.
Definitions:
1. The term -adult' means an individual who
				has attained 16 years of age or who is beyond the age of compulsory school
				attendance under State law,
2. The
				term -adult education' means services or instruction below the college level
				for adults -
3. who are not
				enrolled in secondary school;
4.
				who lack sufficient mastery of basic educational skills to enable them to
				function effectively in society or who do not have a certificate of graduation
				form a school providing secondary education and who have not achieved an
				equivalent level of education;
5.
				who are not currently required to be enrolled in school; and
6. whose lack of mastery of basic skills
				results in an inability to speak, read, or write the English language which
				constitutes a substantial impairment of their ability to get or retain
				employment commensurate with their real ability, and thus are in need of
				programs to help eliminate such inability and raise the level of education of
				such individuals with a view to making them less likely to become dependent on
				others.
7. The term -educationally
				disadvantaged adult' means an adult who -
8. demonstrates basic skills equivalent to or
				below that of students at the fifth grade level; or
9. has been placed in the lowest or beginning
				level of an adult education program when that program does not use grade level
				equivalencies s a measure of students' basic skills.
Use of Funds:
Grants to States shall be used in accordance with State
				  plans (and amendments thereto) to pay the Federal share of the cost of the
				  establishment or expansion of adult education programs to be carried out by
				  local educational agencies and by public or private nonprofit agencies,
				  organizations, and institutions.
Grants provided under this section to States to carry out
				  the programs described in the preceding sentence may be carried out by public
				  or private nonprofit agencies, organizations, and institutions only if the
				  applicable local education agency has been consulted with and has had an
				  opportunity to comment on the application of such agency, organization, or
				  institution. The comments of the local education agency and responses thereto,
				  shall be attached to the application when it is forwarded to the State.
The State educational agency shall give preference to those
				  applicants who have demonstrated or can demonstrate a capability to recruit and
				  serve educationally disadvantaged adults.
Limitations on Use of Funds:
(1) Not more than 20 percent of the
				funds paid to a State under subsection (a) shall be used for corrections
				education and education for other institutionalized individuals in accordance
				with subpart 2
(2) Not more than
				20 percent of a State' allotment shall be used for programs of equivalency for
				a certificate of graduation from a secondary school.