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Start here: a4cas.org   ----   website with links to most everything adulteducationmatters.blogspot.com ------ search by topic saveouradultschool.org --- the best facts and analysis around on Adult Ed policy unitedadultstudents.org ---- Adult Learners in action in Los Angeles smaceesl.blogspot.com   --- ESL Student Blog – search “student voice” for student essays & actions saveadulted.wordpress.com - record of advocacy for Adult Ed in Los Angeles Hit the "read more" link to learn more. History and Context and other Big Picture Stuff: A History of AdultEducation – We’ve Been Here Before   Kristen Pursley’s powerpoint Harvard Symposium on Adult Ed:  When Do Civil Rights Expire? The Difference Between Adult Schools and Community Colleges   Kristen Pursley's posts explain  Student Leadership   The Power of Student Leadership - workshop presented by Student Leaders at CCAE Conference     Marco:   Student...

From The Hill's Congress Blog : Task Force Breaks new Ground on Immigrant Integration   April 17, 2015 This week, the White House Task Force on New Americans released a first-of-its-kind report on integrating immigrants into American society. It breaks important new ground and furthers our national discussion on the issue. Its recommendations represent a step forward that must be built upon. Crucially, the report recognizes that ensuring that immigrants are able to fully participate in the workforce is sound policy—not just for individual immigrants, but for their American-born neighbors, employers, and the communities in which they live. Without immigrants, the U.S. workforce will not be sufficient to replace the workers expected to retire between 2010 and 2030. And as our economy has changed, so has the process of incorporating newcomers. Unlike in decades past, a hands-off approach that assumes immigrants will spend their working lives in jobs with little need for workforce trai...

State Funding for Older Adults and Parent Education Adult Education will end in July of this year. All along, many folks have thought these programs were valuable.  They simply didn't think there was enough money to pay for them, coming out of Great Meltdown of Wall Street, Main Street, and Adult Education. Others, like the folks at the LAO (Legislative Analyst Office), thought the mission of Adult Education should be narrowed to a more work-oriented focus.  (They also thought the two systems - K12 Adult Ed and Community Adult Ed should stay as they were - separate, just better coordinated.)   Meltdowns are the perfect time to re-form things because everything is nice and gooey and often there have already been losses, changes, etc.  This idea is the central tenet of the Shock Doctrine .  Before you get too upset about that, just remember that can swing in any direction.  It might be a direction you like.  It might be a direction you don't like....

Lick your finger and stick it in the air. Feel that? The wind is shifting. Hit the link to learn more and go here for the short version . The Back Story A year or two ago, many people - in and out of the Legislature - felt that Parent Education and Older Adults Adult Education programs were valuable but couldn't be saved.  We were coming out of a great scourge.  Between 70 and 100 Adult Schools had been closed (statistics vary).  All Adult Schools had shrunk in size and scope.   People were focused on survival.  At that time, many felt it was best to "go with the program" and the program was that Governor Brown and many in the Legislature wanted to narrow the focus of Adult Education and limit the funding to five programs.   A number of legislators felt differently and spoke up publically at various hearings - but they did not win out. Politics is a big, slow, messy process that is, ultimately, by, for, and about peop...