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 102 STAT. 302 Adult Education Amendments of 1988. 20 USC 1201 note.

PUBLIC LAW 100-297—APR. 28, 1988 PART B—ADULT EDUCATION

SECTION 2101. SHORT TITLE.

This part may be cited as the "Adult Education Amendments of 1988". SEC. 2102. AMENDMENT TO ADULT EDUCATION ACT.

Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Amendments of 1966 is amended to read as follows: Adult Education Act.

20 USC 1201 note.

"TITLE III—ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMS "SEC. 301. SHORT TITLE.

"This title may be cited as the 'Adult Education Act'. "PART A—BASIC PROGRAM PROVISIONS

20 USC 1201.

"SEC. 311. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.

"It is the purpose of this title to assist the States to improve educational opportunities for adults who lack the level of literacy skills requisite to effective citizenship and productive employment, to expand and improve the current system for delivering adult education services including delivery of such services to educationally disadvantaged adults, and to encourage the establishment of adult education programs that will— "(1) enable these adults to acquire the basic educational skills necessary for literate functioning; "(2) provide these adults with sufficient basic education to enable them to benefit from job training and retraining programs and obtain and retain productive employment so that they might more fully enjoy the benefits and responsibilities of citizenship; and "(3) enable adults who so desire to continue their education to at least the level of completion of secondary school. 20 USC 1201a.

"SEC. 312. DEFINITIONS.

"As used in this title— "(1) The term 'adult' means an individual who has attained 16 years of age or who is beyond the age of compulsory school attendance under State law, except that for the purpose of section 313(b), the term 'adult' means an individual 16 years of age or older. "(2) The term 'adult education' means services or instruction below the college level for adults— "(A) who are not enrolled in secondary school; "(B) who lack sufficient mastery of basic educational skills to enable them to function effectively in society or who do not have a certificate of graduation from a school providing secondary education and who have not achieved an equivalent level of education; "(C) who are not currently required to be enrolled in school; and "(D) whose lack of mastery of basic skills results in an inability to speak, read, or write the English language

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