LCNV's long-time partnership with the Virginia Department of Education has enabled the organization to advance its program development, initiate new outreach programs and improve service delivery to the thousands of adults it serves every year. In the past three years alone, Virginia's Office of Adult Education and Literacy has contributed nearly $500,000 to support the Literacy Council of Northern Virginia's two classroom programs: ESOL Learning Centers and the Family Learning Program.
"Throughout the Commonwealth, we are striving to improve the basic literacy and workplace readiness skills of our adult learners with a variety of programs and approaches," says Randy Stamper, Director of the Virginia Department of Education's Office of Adult Education and Literacy. "OAEL is a proud to partner with LCNV by supporting their high-quality, beginning-level programs that focus on advancement and achievement while building critically important literacy skills." Education and literacy are keys to a better quality of life - but over one million Virginia adults age 18 and older do not have a high school diploma or its equivalent, and many more lack literacy in key areas such as math or business skills. To serve these populations, the Virginia Department of Education supports adult education in Virginia primarily by funding and supporting programs at the local level, which offer everything from GED test preparation to tutoring in English language-based life skills. |
