adult basic education

adult basic education Sec. 217. Title 11 of the Act is amended by adding at the end thereof (after the section added by section 216) the following new section: “special projects on adult basic education “Sec. 211–3. The Director is authorized to make grants to local educational agencies and to other public or private nonprofit agencies for the purpose of special projects in the field of adult basic education for low-income individuals over eighteen years of age whose lack of basic educational skills constitutes a substantial impairment of their ability to get or retain employment commensurate with their real ability. Such projects shall— “(1) involve the use of innovative methods, systems, materials, or programs which the Director determines may have national significance or be of special value in promoting effective programs under this title, “(2) involve activities in adult basic education which the Director determines are so coupled with other Federal, federally assisted, State, or local programs, as to have unusual promise in promoting a comprehensive or coordinated approach to the problems of low-income individuals with basic educational deficiencies, or “(3) show promise of enabling persons receiving welfare payments or other forms of public assistance to obtain employment which will permit discontinuance of such assistance.”