The Secretary provides grants or cooperative agreements to projects designed to improve the productivity of the workforce through improvement of literacy skills in the workplace by--
(a) Providing adult literacy and other basic skills services and activities;
(b) Providing adult secondary education services and activities that may lead to the completion of a high school diploma or its equivalent;
(c) Meeting the literacy needs of adults with limited English proficiency;
(d) Upgrading or updating basic skills of adult workers in accordance with changes in workplace requirements, technology, products, or processes;
(e) Improving the competency of adult workers in speaking, listening, reasoning, and problem solving; or
(f) Providing educational counseling, transportation, and child care services for adult workers during nonworking hours while the workers participate in the project. (Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1211(a)(3))