Funding cuts to silence AmeriCorps program that helps immigrants learn English

This funding cut is serious, citizens complain that immigrants won't learn English and yet 4,000 adults will have to give up their classes.    - - Donna Poisl

By JAYME FRASER, Seattle Times staff reporter

More than a dozen programs in King County that teach basic English to adults could lose teachers because of recent cuts in federal funding.

The loss could affect as many as an estimated 4,000 adults taught by AmeriCorps members at sites ranging from St. James Cathedral and the King County Jail to Seattle Central Community College and the Metrocenter YMCA downtown.

A national service organization started in 1994, AmeriCorps relies on grants from an organization called the Corporation for National and Community Service, which partners with the federal government to pay stipends to volunteers who perform community service.
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