U.S. Department of Education: Promoting Educational Excellence for all Americans

Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Summary — May 7, 2009

 

Section III. C.  Career, Technical, and Adult Education

Overview

Programs in the Career, Technical, and Adult Education account provide formula grants to States to further State and community efforts to improve career and technical education, adult education and literacy systems, educational services for incarcerated individuals, and competitive grants and contracts for evaluation, performance measurement and improvement, technical assistance, research and development, and other national activities.

Career and Technical Education
(B.A. in millions)

  2008 2009 2010
Request
 
Career and Technical Education
  State Grants
$1,160.9 $1,160.9 $1,160.9
Tech-Prep Education State Grants 102.9 102.9 102.9
National Programs 7.9 7.9 7.9
Total
1,271.7

1,271.7

1,271.7

Funds for the Career and Technical Education (CTE) State Grants program would support continued improvement and upgrading of CTE programs as part of a strategy for improving high school education and preparing high school students to enter the workplace or pursue postsecondary education. The program authorization also directs States to create "programs of study," which are coherent sequences of non-duplicative CTE courses that progress from the secondary to the postsecondary level, include rigorous and challenging academic content along with career and technical content, and lead to an industry-recognized credential or, at the postsecondary level, to an associate or baccalaureate degree.

The Tech Prep program funds grants to consortia of school districts (or other agencies that provide secondary career and technical education) and institutions of higher education for the development and implementation of programs of non-duplicative, sequential courses of study that combine at least 2 years of secondary education and 2 years of postsecondary education with work-based learning experiences. Local tech prep programs can be dual-enrollment programs, in which high school students take college courses for credit as part of their sequential coursework.

Career and Technical Education National Programs funds support the National Career and Technical Education Research Center, as well as projects to improve the quality of the performance data States collect and report to the Department.

Adult Education (Adult Basic and Literacy Education)
(B.A. in millions)

  2008 2009 2010
Request
 
Adult Basic and Literacy Education
  State Grants
$554.1 $554.1 $628.2
National Leadership Activities 6.9 6.9 13.4
National Institute for Literacy 6.5 6.5
Total
567.5

567.5

641.6

Adult Basic and Literacy Education State Grants assist adults without a high school diploma or equivalent to become literate and obtain the knowledge and skills necessary for employment or postsecondary education and self-sufficiency. The request includes an increase of $74.1 million over the 2009 level that would assist States in meeting the significant and ongoing need for adult education services. The increase includes $67.0 million to compensate certain States for errors in calculating formula grant awards between fiscal years 2003 and 2008. This one-time increase would provide these States the additional amounts to which they were entitled, while holding harmless the States that received overpayments during this period.

The request also includes $75.0 million for the English Literacy/Civics Education State Grants set-aside, a $7.1 million increase from the 2009 level, which would help States and communities provide limited English proficient adults with expanded access to high- quality English literacy programs linked to civics education. The $13.4 million request for National Leadership Activities, an increase of $6.5 million, would support efforts to improve the quality of adult education programs, including evaluations of the effectiveness of adult education interventions, training institutes, adult literacy surveys, and technical assistance on performance-based funding models. The increased funds would be made available by terminating support for the National Institute for Literacy(NIFL). The Administration believes that funds can be spent in a more coordinated and efficient manner through the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, while eliminating the additional costs of NIFL's infrastructure.

Grants to States for Workplace and Community Transition Training for Incarcerated Individuals

  2008 2009 2010
Request
 
B.A. in millions $22.4 $17.2 $17.2

This program helps State correctional agencies enable nearly 200,000 eligible incarcerated individuals to acquire postsecondary education, counseling, and vocational training.

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