Literacy Assistance Center

11/01/2019

Check out the LAC Jobs Board!

Literacy Assistance Center Job Title: ASISTS Program Associate (ASISTS Technical Support) Position Overview: The ASISTS Program Associate will be responsible for providing phone and email support to...

07/27/2019

Amazing Romance Writers of America autograph event today. We thank them for their support of reading and adult literacy organizations.

05/23/2019

Learn more about joining us for this opportunity to get your books signed to meet authors as well as support adult literacy programs https://www.rwa.org/Online/Events/Literacy_Autographing/Online/Events/Literacy_Autographing.aspx?hkey=3cbb801b-c268-4f46-95a4-1ef6ba8023de

12/18/2018

This holiday season, please consider donating to the Literacy Assistance Center (https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/LiteracyAssistanceCent…). In 2018, the LAC provided professional development and instructional coaching to over 500 adult literacy educators in NYC (and to hundreds more through presentations we offered across the country); graduated 38 adult ESOL teachers from our Teaching English as a Second Language to Adults certificate program; expanded our support for the more than 150 adult literacy programs throughout NYS that use our data management system; leveraged our Investing in Quality report to enhance our work with program leaders -- and to advocate for greater investment in adult literacy services. And, this fall, we launched the Literacy and Justice Initiative, a new project designed to build a broad-based movement for adult literacy education by framing adult literacy as part of wider movements for social and economic justice, including the immigrants’ rights and workers’ rights movements. For more information on any of our work, please feel free to contact me at [email protected]. Thank you in advance for your support!

11/25/2018

Park came to the U.S. with his family when he was 7 years old. He's a senior at Harvard working toward a degree in molecular and cellular biology with a minor in ethnicity, migration and rights.

11/20/2018

Yesterday morning, New York Counts 2020 had an impressive showing of support from more than 25 New York Counts 2020 organizational members, launched its campaign for state funding of census work, particularly of community-based organizations' efforts to get out the count (BOTC) in 2020. Thanks to ALL who came out.

Backed by the findings of Fiscal Policy Institute's Report, we are asking the state to appropriate at least $40 million ($2.00 per New York resident) for community based organizations to do the critical outreach necessary to maximize a complete count in New York State. We need each member organization of New York Counts 2020 to please circulate widely this online petition, bit.ly/fundcensus to your members, friends, and colleagues living in New York State to sign.

When we go to Albany for Lobby Day on March 5, 2019, the petition will show legislators how widespread support for funding of community based organizations is – and how critically important they are to get out the count in 2020. An accurate and complete count impacts ALL New Yorkers! Thanks to everyone for your anticipated action in making this campaign a success!!

The New York State Legislature will soon engage in budget negotiations for FY 2019-2020. Census data decides how much of the $800 billion dollars in federal funding New Yorkers will receive for the next ten years, the number of seats New York has in the House of Representatives, and redistricting fo...

10/31/2018

Congratulations Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) and two of their students, Andre Fuller and Phillip Rucker, who were honored as Students of the Year by the New York Association for Continuing and Community Education (NYACCE) on October 23, 2018. They were two of eighteen students were selected from across New York state.

Read more: https://www.lacnyc.org/

05/22/2018

Learning about using social media to recruit, retain, and engage students

03/06/2018

Thank you Ron Kim for New York!

More than 3.5 million New Yorkers need access to adult literacy programs and this year, due to federal cuts, we are facing an estimated $8million funding gap, leaving 17,000 more students behind in NY.

Immigrants who are English language proficient earn up to 24% more than immigrants who are not.

For every NYC resident who earns a high school diploma or its equivalent, there is a net benefit to the City of $324,000 over their lifetime (tax contributions and decreased public benefit utilization).

We need to restore and support additional funding ($15.3m total) in this year's budget!

Kevin Douglas Ira Yankwitt Ariel Savransky United Neighborhood Houses New York City Coalition for Adult Literacy

02/14/2018

One of the projects that the LAC works on is the New York City Support and Technical Assistance Center (STAC), funded by the New York State Education Department to provide support and technical assistance to the 19 ALE-funded programs in New York City. Today we unveiled a new ALE-funded Program Highlights Section on the NYC STAC website. In this section you will find contact and class registration information as well as a highlight about the program's accomplishments.

Each year, New York State Education Department Adult Literacy Education (ALE) funded programs provide students with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to succeed in their professional, social,...