[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 34, Volume 3]

[Revised as of July 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 34CFR460.1]



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                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION

 

  CHAPTER IV--OFFICE OF VOCATIONAL AND ADULT EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF 

                                EDUCATION

 

PART 460_ADULT EDUCATION_GENERAL PROVISIONS--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 460.1  What is the purpose of the Adult Education Act?









Sec.

460.1 What is the purpose of the Adult Education Act?

460.2 What programs are authorized by the Adult Education Act?

460.3 What regulations apply to the adult education programs?

460.4 What definitions apply to the adult education programs?



    Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1201 et seq., unless otherwise noted.



    Source: 54 FR 34409, Aug. 18, 1989, unless otherwise noted. 

Redesignated at 57 FR 24091, June 5, 1992.





    The purpose of the Adult Education Act (the Act) is to assist the 

States to--

    (a) Improve educational opportunities for adults who lack the level 

of literacy skills requisite to effective citizenship and productive 

employment;

    (b) Expand and improve the current system for delivering adult 

education services, including delivery of these services to 

educationally disadvantaged adults; and

    (c) Encourage the establishment of adult education programs that 

will--

    (1) Enable adults to acquire the basic educational skills necessary 

for literate functioning;

    (2) Provide adults with sufficient basic education to enable them to 

benefit from job training and retraining programs and obtain and retain 

productive employment so that they might more fully enjoy the benefits 

and responsibilities of citizenship; and

    (3) Enable adults who so desire to continue their education to at 

least the level of completion of secondary school.



(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1201)