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Adult Education State Grants

The Adult Education State grants program funds literacy and basic skills education programs to help adults become literate, get a secondary school education, or learn English. Funds are distrbuted by formula grants to States and States must distibute funds competitively to local providers.

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What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Effective

This is the highest rating a program can achieve. Programs rated Effective set ambitious goals, achieve results, are well-managed and improve efficiency.
  • Recent evaluation findings and project performance data indicate the program has positive effects and has achieved its performance goals for high school completion, postsecondary education or training, and job retention. The percentage of Adult education students who obtained a GED or high school diploma increased by 26 percent from 2001 to 2007.
  • The program recruits, retains, and assists more people from its target population at a lower cost than other job training programs. In 2004, the Federal cost per high school diploma or GED attained by adults or out-of-school youth was $3,081, compared to a range of $12,000 to $90,000 for other Federal job training programs.
  • The program developed data quality standards, encouraged States to use common assessment tools, and improved the National Reporting System to collect comparable grantee performance data.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Improving the availability of program performance data to enable comparison across States and individual programs.
  • Pursuing reauthorization language to enable the Department to collect participants' earnings data, either through Unemployment Insurance (UI) records or through other means allowed under State law.
  • Providing training to all States and Outlying Areas to improve the overall quality of program performance data collected and reported by State and local programs.

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