Literacy: Spanning the U.S.
KACE,
former literacy council, closing
Kitsap Sun:
8.20.2016 by Josh Farley
Kitsap Adult
Center for Education, long
known as the county's literacy council, will shut down next month after a
37-year run due to a decline in funding, its executive director announced this
past week.
"I
am profoundly sorry that after September 30 KACE will no longer be able to join
together with you in meeting the literacy needs in our community,"
Director Ann Rudnicki wrote in an email to staff and volunteers of the
organization late last month.
Rudnicki
said that government funding has became increasingly hard to find for the
services the community desired from the nonprofit. Many of the approximately
200 students who came through the doors each year required one-on-one tutoring
in an era where the vast majority of funds was reserved for classroom
instruction and other programming, she said.
"The
biggest single factor leading to this decision involves a dramatically
increasing disconnect between our state funding (and the federal legislation
& regulations that drive it) and the population that the community wants
and needs us to serve," Rudnicki wrote in the email. "And there is no
reasonable chance of acquiring adequate alternative resources in the
foreseeable future."
The
literacy council was founded in 1979 by Rosemary Doar, a community resource
coordinator with the state's Department of Social and Health Services. READ MORE @
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Literacy project works to help
Glenn County residents
Chicoer: 8.22.2016 by Kyra Gottesman
The Glenn County Adult Literacy Project is
increasing its efforts to reach area residents who may benefit from its
services.
Operating under the auspices of the Glenn County
Office of Education, the Literacy Project provides free tutoring to adults who
want to improve their reading, writing, spelling or math skills.
“We work with English- and Spanish-speaking adults
to improve their literacy rate so they may move forward with their computer
skills, education, job training or earning their GED,” said Alaya Frey, interim
coordinator.
The literacy program offers one-on-one tutoring in
English and Spanish at the Willows Public and Orland Free libraries two hours a week.
Those who are interested may drop in or make an appointment. READ MORE @
Storytelling Festival promotes adult literacy
Public Opinion Online: 8.27.2016 by David Barr
Folk
tales, rabbits, cats on trains, and comedy were plentiful Saturday morning at
the Chambers Fort Park during the second Franklin County Storytelling Festival.
The
festival gave residents a chance to listen to professional storytellers spin
old-time yarns, and raised awareness of the need to improve adult literacy in
the county.
The
morning kicked off with "storybook characters" and supporters walking
a path through the park and along Cumberland Valley Rail Trail, stopping along
the way to read a story told on posters set up at different stations along the
route. A goal of the inaugural Path to Literacy Character Walk was to show the
community that adult literacy is an issue, according to Frank Thomas, the
program coordinator for the Franklin County Literacy Council.
One in
five adults across the nation cannot read above an eighth-grade level,
according to Thomas. In addition to raising awareness of this, the walk also
served as a way to raise money needed by the literacy council to fund programs
in the county to help local people who are affected.
The
literacy council provides an array of literacy services in the county, such as
tutoring, basic literacy instruction, GED preparation and computer literacy
instruction, among others, to residents and assists them in the pursuit of life
goals through the advancement of literacy.
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