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July 9, 2007

Carcieri to announce education grants

PROVIDENCE -- Governor Carcieri is scheduled to announce $9 million in grants to adult education programs across the state today.

That's a more than $2 million increase over the previous fiscal year.

The $9 million to 38 community-based adult education agencies is expected to help more than eight-thousand people.

Most of the adult education programs are for foreign language speakers or have an English-as-a-second-language component. Many of those programs have long waiting lists.

Elliot Krieger, a spokesman for the state Education Department, says adult education has previously been underfunded in Rhode Island.

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