Families Learning and Understanding English Together Act of 2016
Last action on Sep 19, 2016Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Work...
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Families Learning and Understanding English Together Act of 2016
This bill authorizes the Department of Education (ED) to make grants to providers of family literacy services in order to improve the literacy and English skills of limited English proficient individuals who are parents or children in families where each parent is at least age 16 and at least one child is under age 8.
ED shall reserve certain funds to: (1) provide grantees with technical assistance and training, and (2) evaluate and improve the family literacy grant program.
Grantees must meet specified outcome measures.
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