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- Program-specific Requirements for Adult Education and Family Literacy Act Programs
The Unified or Combined State Plan must include a description of the following as it pertains to adult education and literacy programs and activities under title II of WIOA, the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA).
Section 427 of the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA)
In the text box below, describe the steps the applicant proposes to take to ensure equitable access to, and participation in, its Federally-assisted program for students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries with special needs provide the information to meet the requirements of Section 427 of the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA), consistent with the following instructions posted at https://www2.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/appforms/gepa427.doc.
Current Narrative:
GEPA Section 427
Maine Adult Education strives to ensure that efforts are made by the state office and local providers to determine the existence of possible barriers that may prevent current or potential students, teachers or others from accessing our federally funded offerings. These barriers include, but may not be limited to gender, race, national origin, color, disability and/or age.
The Maine GEPA plan consists of the following:
1. State office will conduct a GEPA awareness training annually for all local providers administrators and staff.
2. Local providers will be required to do the following annually:
a. Bring some staff and students together to identify any of the possible barriers to be addressed by GEPA.
b. Analyze program data to identify possible underserved populations, why, who isn’t completing, lack of enrollments in certain populations, drop outs, etc.
c. Determine root cause of the identified barriers.
d. Describe the steps taken to identify potential/existing barrier(s)
e. Identify barrier type (gender, race, national origin, color, disability, age, other)
f. Describe the potential/existing barrier(s)
g. Describe how the local provider will mitigate the barrier(s) identified
h. Indicate how Title II AEFLA funds will be used to support the activities in g. above
i. Any additional notes (optional)
Each provider will document the above process and submit the findings and next steps to the state office for review and approval.