The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Amendment No. 6 offered by Mr. SMITH of Michigan: Page 13. after line 18. insert the following: -(E) Providing family literacy services to English language learners and immigrant children and youth and their families to improve their English language skills and assist parents in helping their children to improve their academic performance. Page 13. line 19. strike -(E)" and insert "(F)". Page 25. after line 21. insert the following (and redesignate any subsequent paragraphs accordingly): "(4) FAMILY LITERACY SERVICES.-The term family literacy services means services provided to participants on a voluntary basis that are of sufficient intensity in terms of hours. and of sufficient duration. to make sustainable changes in a family (such as eliminating or reducing welfare dependency) and that Integrate all of the following activities: (A) Interactive literacy activities between parents and their children. "(B) Equipping parents to partner with their children in learning. "(C) Parent literacy training. including training that contributes to economic selfsufficiency. "(D) Appropriate instruction for children of parents receiving parent literacy services."
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