§3303 State Leadership Activities

Summary

Each eligible agency must spend money from section 3302(a)(2) on activities that build or improve the State’s adult education and literacy system. Required uses include: aligning adult education with other core workforce and education programs and one-stop partners (following the strategy in the State’s unified plan under section 3112 or combined plan under section 3113) and building career pathways; running strong professional development for teachers and volunteers (including adult reading instruction); giving technical help to funded providers (sharing research-based teaching methods, supporting English language and math programs, helping providers act as one-stop partners, and helping use technology); and monitoring, evaluating, and sharing information about what works. An eligible agency may also spend those funds on other statewide activities, such as supporting literacy resource networks, developing technology and distance learning, making and sharing curricula, creating training that links education and jobs, helping providers measure progress and meet State adjusted levels of performance in section 3141(b)(3), easing transitions to postsecondary education, combining literacy with job skills training, setting curriculum frameworks and rigorous content standards (while considering State standards, current adult assessments, the performance indicators in section 3141, college enrollment requirements, and industry skill standards), improving teacher quality and retention, serving adults with learning disabilities or English learners, outreach, and other statewide efforts. Agencies must collaborate when possible and avoid duplicating work. If a State or territory creates a rule for these programs that adds a requirement beyond federal law, it must tell providers that the rule comes from the State or territory.