When the state's final midyear 2007 budget was passed by the legislature, the funding promise for adult education programs was not kept.
But Department of Technical and Adult Education officials have pledged to find a way to keep GED and adult literacy services running through July when a new funding cycle begins.
Just last month, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle pledged to find the $1.8 million needed to make up a federal shortfall in adult education program funds.
Relieved DTAE officials halted their plans for a two-month furlough of adult education programs. The furlough would have put teachers temporarily out of work and closed the GED, literacy and English as a Second Language courses that serve 68,000 adult learners across the state.
