Posted on 02/14/2006 12:38:05 PM PST by bourbon
U.S. Department of Labor Awards $4.9 Million in Grants To Improve English Language Skills in the Workplace
Grants Will Train Workers in California, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York and Texas
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor today announced five grants totaling more than $4.9 million to improve English language skills in the workplace. The grants will train approximately 4,400 individuals in California, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York and Texas.
“To succeed in the workplace, workers must know how to communicate in English,” said Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao. “These $4.9 million in English skills training grants will help thousands of workers realize the American dream for themselves and their families.”
In California, San Diego’s Imperial Counties Labor Council was awarded a $1 million grant to increase the workplace literacy of 150 incumbent Hispanic workers in the steel and shipbuilding sector of the construction industry. Participants will obtain an apprentice level entry into the industry after completing training.
The Career Launch! project will use its $1 million grant to deliver customer service and health care industry training to approximately 200 Somali, Ethiopian, Southeast Asian and Hispanic participants in Minnesota.
Through a grant of over $800,000 awarded to Nebraska’s Metropolitan Community College, approximately 1,389 individuals will receive English language training for careers in the construction, healthcare and transportation industries.
A $1 million grant will allow City University of New York Research Foundation to use cutting-edge instructional technologies to train approximately 240 persons in skills sought after by New York retail and food employers.
In Texas, a $1.1 million grant to SER-Jobs for Progress National Inc. will fund a work-based English skills program in four cities to prepare approximately 2,430 Hispanic workers for careers in the hospitality industry.
“Growing industries constantly seek out workers taking action to enhance their skills,” said Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training Emily Stover DeRocco. “Developing English language skills will enable workers associated with these five projects to compete for sought-after jobs in growing industries.”
The grants awarded today are the result of a competitive Solicitation for Grant Applications aimed at seeking strategies to address challenges and increase rates of English proficiency and high school graduation. For more on this and other employment and training programs at the Department of Labor, please visit www.doleta.gov.
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If you can't read, or write, or speak English - how can you obey and follow our laws - and how can you become a citizen.
Put a stop to it - REQUIRE ALL APPLICANTS FOR CITIZENSHIP TO SPEAK, READ and WRITE ENGLISH!!
If citizenship takes 5 years - that's plenty of time to learn how to communicate in the country where you live.
A mere drop in the waterfall of unchecked government spending.
We are told by those who accuse us of being Bushbashers that the president has no power to correct any of this "immigration" situation. He could start with repealing Exec. order # 13166.
http://www.welchreport.com/comment2.cfm?rank_cho=554
GLOBALISM, COLLECTIVISM, AND STUPIDISM
By Phyllis Spivey
"We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness; only power, pure power. What pure power means you will learn presently."
From the novel, 1984, by George Orwell
It’s another of those government edicts that make you think the world has gone mad: Executive Order 13166. In the last months of his presidency, Bill Clinton evidently decided it wasn’t enough to merely force taxpayers to subsidize services to non-citizen, non-English speakers. So he by-passed Congress with a mandate that bestows vast new powers on the federal bureaucracy, trashes states’ rights, individual rights, and what’s left of the free enterprise system. And the Bush Administration is implementing it.
Executive Order 13166 directs all federal agencies to adopt plans for improving access to federally funded programs for persons with limited English proficiency (LEP). In effect, the scheme shifts responsibility away from people with language problems and puts it squarely on any American who offers a public or private service in any way touched by federal funding, including health, education, emergency, transportation, and social services, job training, consumer and environmental protection, law enforcement, courts, public and private contractors, subcontractors and vendors.
It gets worse. According to the pro-U.S.Constitution legal group, Pacific Legal Foundation (www.pacificlegal.org), Bill Lan Lee who at Clinton’s insistence became the government’s chief civil rights lawyer, was a vigorous proponent of multilingual government. Lee took the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin and expanded "national origin" to include "language." Clinton codified Lee’s new definition in EO 13166 and Bush’s Department of Justice has built policy around it.
The legal implications are enormous. Realize that the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has reported as many as 500 different languages and dialects spoken by persons residing in the U.S. and you begin to understand the magnitude of the mandate and its ultimate effects on the lives of Americans.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)responded to EO 13166's call to action by issuing rules only a collectivist could love. The Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), with the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons and ProEnglish, filed suit in 2004 to block HHS from enforcing its requirements (Colwell v. U.S. Dept. Of HHS). PLF’s description of HHS rules explains why:
HHS forces doctors who have any Medicare or Medicaid patients to provide interpreters and translators – and ensure their competency – for any patient who has limited or no English speaking skills or face possible prosecution for intentional discrimination under the federal Civil Rights Act!
HHS requires the costs of hihring interpreters and translators to be borne entirely by the physician, even at a net loss. The federal government contributes nothing to this huge financial and administrative cost; [snip]
See post #24
Saw it, read it, needed a barf bag.
BOHICA from a fellow citizen of invaded California...
And .. all of that cost could be avoided if the people were FORCED to learn English!
Que bueno....
Surprised it isn't spanish they are pushing. Zero immergration for the next 50 years.
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