Guidelines
for Statewide Email Discussion Lists
Hosted by Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy & Learning
TCALL hosts a number
of statewide email discussion lists for the purpose of bringing together
literacy stakeholders -- administrators, practitioners, and community
partners -- to discuss critical issues within the literacy field; share
resources, experiences, and ideas; and keep up-to-date on literacy issues,
policies, and training/networking opportunities. TCALL partners with
the state adult education office housed at Harris County Department of
Education to facilitate the discussion lists.
Messages posted to
the discussion lists do not represent the views or opinions of the Texas
Center for the Advancement of Literacy & Learning, Texas A&M University,
Texas Education Agency, Texas LEARNS, nor Harris County Department of Education. The
discussion lists are funded at TCALL through Texas Education Agency, using
adult education funds appropriated to the states by the U.S. Congress.
Anti-lobbying laws
prohibit the use of appropriated funds for lobbying. In order to ensure
TCALL's compliance with federal law, TCALL requests that all discussion
list participants use the TCALL-hosted lists in accordance with their
intended purposes and refrain from posting messages that constitute lobbying.
Comments, suggestions, references, and ideas posted to the discussion
lists should serve as resources for enhancing the field's capacity and
knowledge base. The use of a federally-funded list to maintain and disseminate
messages that are intended to influence or cause others to influence a
member of Congress to favor or oppose legislation or an appropriation
by Congress is a violation of the law.
Further, list participants
are expected to conduct their communications on the list in a spirit of
inquiry, curiosity, and mutual respect and follow the Netiquette Rules
posted on the website of the National Institute for Literacy at:
http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/list_guidelines.html#netiquette
Questions about TCALL's discussion lists and the policies governing
those lists may be directed to the Adult and Family Literacy Clearinghouse Director,
Harriet Vardiman Smith, at:
hsmith@tamu.edu
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