$1.3M in grants to help immigrants learn English.WORCESTER Worcester, city, England Worcester (w  s`tər), city (1991 pop. 75,466) and district, Worcestershire, W central England, on the Severn River. - State officials are slated to announce $1.3 million in
grants aimed at helping the state's immigrants learn English.
State Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development Suzanne M. Bump and state Secretary of Education S. Paul Reville are scheduled to give details of the grants to support workplace-based English proficiency pro·fi·cien·cy n. pl. pro·fi·cien·cies The state or quality of being proficient; competence. Noun 1. proficiency - the quality of having great facility and competence and adult basic education classes offered by business-labor-community partnerships. The announcement will be held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in the faculty conference room of the University of Massachusetts Medical School UMMS is ranked fourth in primary care education among the nation’s 125 medical schools in the 2006 U.S.News & World Report annual guide, “America’s Best Graduate Schools”. UMMS is also a major center for research. . The new grants partly restore the state's 10 percent cut in June in Adult Basic Education programs. Immigrant advocates say about 17,000 Massachusetts Massachusetts (măsəch  `sĭts), most populous of the New England states of the NE United States. immigrants are
on the waiting lists for state-funded English classes.
The grants come after a coalition of business, labor and civic leaders in New Bedford New Bedford, city (1990 pop. 99,922), seat of Bristol co., SE Mass., at the mouth of the Acushnet River on Buzzard's Bay; settled 1640, set off from Dartmouth 1787, inc. as a city 1847. launched a campaign in August to improve immigrants' English proficiency by supporting reforms and investment in English programs. |
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