No, and I don't know of any other group that was consulted. In fact, we were strung along. We had expected our grants to come around April or May, as they normally do for the fiscal year.
We were told there was no call for proposals, that it was delayed. We waited until there was a call for proposals in August and we all submitted proposals. Many literacy practitioners, and not just coalitions, spent numerous hours in the summer writing proposals and submitted them for the September 15 deadline, and shortly after that it was announced that literacy was cut. So there was no consultation at all.