DCET Programs
• ESL (English as a Second Language)

Based upon President Bush's "No Child Left Behind" (Title IV, Part B of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 2002), English, as a Second Language becomes an important component of DCET's programs.

One of DCET's goals is to help with the literacy challenges facing our youth and their families. Our efforts are to fight against low literacy through assistance and accountability for performance. We believe in Education, we provide literacy services to youth and their families and give emphasis to economically disadvantaged welfare mothers and their children. (As per latest statistics, One-third of Hispanic mothers on welfare are functionally illiterate.)

Our goal is to provide, along with our Literacy courses, positive role models who will create a nurture and stimulating environment, and by doing so, we will provide ways for our students to lead active and satisfying lives. Our students will have a desire to add to their skills levels while acquiring a greater proficiency in the English language.

Community Literacy Statistics:
Youngsters whose parents are functionally illiterate are twice as likely as their peers to be functionally illiterate themselves.
--National Assessment of Education Progress

55% of all children in poverty live in single-parent households headed by women, and 40% of all single mothers have an 8th grade education or less.
--Laubach Literacy Action

Hispanics comprise 13 percent of the U.S. population, which grew to 284.8 million in July 2001. That's up from 35.3 million, or 12.5 percent of the country's 281.4 million residents in April 2000.
--US National Census 2000

Over 7 million Hispanics, 16 years and older are functionally illiterate. Nearly half of these are unemployed.
--US Dept. of Education and National Coalition for Literacy, Workforce 2000 report

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