🚨 Urgent Action Needed! 🚨
Adult education funding is under threat! The President's FY26 budget proposal eliminates federal funding for these critical programs. This would devastate adult learners in Illinois, where 9.4% of adults lack a high school diploma, and a shocking 25% in Cook County.
Click here to view the proposed federal budget:
https://whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fiscal-year-2026-discretionary-budget-request.pdf
These programs provide essential literacy, numeracy, and workforce skills, empowering individuals to support their families and communities. We can't let this happen!
Here's how YOU can make a difference:
Use your personal voice, not your work devices. Together, we can protect adult education in Illinois
Adult education funding is under threat! The President's FY26 budget proposal eliminates federal funding for these critical programs. This would devastate adult learners in Illinois, where 9.4% of adults lack a high school diploma, and a shocking 25% in Cook County.
Click here to view the proposed federal budget:
https://whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fiscal-year-2026-discretionary-budget-request.pdf
These programs provide essential literacy, numeracy, and workforce skills, empowering individuals to support their families and communities. We can't let this happen!
Here's how YOU can make a difference:
- 📞 Call your Senators and Representatives! Use the sample script in the IACEA document.
- 📧 Email your legislators! A sample email is provided in the IACEA document.
- 📣 Share this message widely! Educators, community partners, friends, and family – we need everyone to speak up!
- 📢 Amplify IACEA's social media posts! Help raise awareness and drive action.
Use your personal voice, not your work devices. Together, we can protect adult education in Illinois
IACEA – the Voice of Adult Education in Illinois – provides leadership, representation and advocacy for adult education and literacy practitioners in order to advance, unify and professionalize the field
AdvocacyEach year we spotlight an administrator, an instructor, a support services staff member, and an adult learner for their outstanding work and leadership in the area of adult education.
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LeadershipCharged with promoting the achievements and successes of adult education to our communities and state and national legislative bodies.
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ConferenceThe IACEA conference is Illinois’s premier event for adult education practitioners. This three day conference will provide professional development and networking opportunities for people in all adult education roles and capacities. The conference is appropriate for practitioners of English as a Second Language (ESL), Literacy, Adult Basic Education (ABE), Adult Secondary Education (ASE), High School Equivalency (HSE), Integrated Education and Training (IET), and all things WIOA.
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RepresentationNew IACEA members select a division to help promote and encourage activities of groups having a common interest. Which division is meant for you?
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All the Tools You Need to Succeed
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From its inception, IACEA has advocated the improvement of adult and continuing education standards in the state of Illinois; promoted the availability of adult and continuing education to all people; and stimulated the intellectual and professional growth of its membership including those who administer, teach, or provide support services in adult and continuing education programs. IACEA members represent all facets of the field including public schools, community extensions and evening colleges, corrections, health, community and social welfare agencies, university continuing and extension education, business, arts and religion, media, libraries and many more. We are in the mainstream of the most important movement of the century.
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Adult Education Locations and Referrals in Illinois
Click below to find your Illinois WorkNet Centers and Partner Locations
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