Extension of Texas State Plan for
Adult Education and Family Literacy
11.0 Programs for Corrections Education and Other Institutionalized
Individuals (Section 225)
Section 225 requires that for each fiscal year, the Texas Education
Agency shall carry out corrections education or education for other institutionalized
individuals using not more than 10 percent of the 82.5 percent funds
authorized by Section 222 (a)(1).
11.1 Types of Programs
Funds shall be used for the cost of educational programs for criminal
offenders in correctional institutions and for other institutionalized
individuals, including academic programs for:
- basic education;
- special education programs as determined by the Texas Education Agency;
- English literacy programs;
- Secondary school credit programs.
11.2 Priority
As required by AEFLA,
Texas will give priority to serving individuals who are likely to leave
the correctional institutional within five years of participation in
the program.
11.3 Types of Institutional
Settings
Correctional institution means any:
- prison;
- jail;
- reformatory;
- work farm;
- detention center; or
- halfway house, community-based rehabilitation center, or other similar
institution designed for the confinement or rehabilitation of criminal
offenders.
Further Information
A Request for Application (RFA)
will be issued annually for statewide competition in accordance with
the process and procedures for funding Section
6.0 of the State Plan. .
Applicants for adult education funds under this title will be asked
to spend not more than 10 percent of their allocation to serve incarcerated
and other institutionalized adults. A financial tracking system has been
developed by the Texas Education Agency to account for the expenditures.
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