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From Kristen Pursley's Save Your Adult School Blog :   Call Your Legislators Now!   by kpursley Please call or email your state legislators today to request that they support stable, dedicated funding for adult schools with a strong Maintenance of Effort requirement to protect current adult school capacity. Governor Brown’s May Revise of the budget includes stable funding for adult schools.  However, the community colleges are lobbying to have a key protection for adult schools removed: the Maintenance of Effort (MOE) requirement for school districts that is part of the Adult Education Block Grant that will provide funding for adult schools next year.  The community colleges don’t like the fact that some money will be set aside for adult schools.  They want “flexibility” so they can get access to the money for adult schools. Flexibility for school districts was what almost killed adult schools last time.  We don’t need to have ...

How many of us teaching in the field of Adult Education have been made to feel this way?  And very importantly, why?  How does the larger culture perceive who we serve, what we do, and why?     Adult Ed Teacher Gregory A. Dobie reflects on some of these questions in this CATESOL News article. Hit the link to read his thoughts. “You’re Not a Real Teacher”: Reflections on Adult ESL May 19th, 2015 | By CATESOL News | Category: Conferences , Featuring: Regional Conferences , Regional                By GREGORY A. DOBIE —In 1998 I was teaching an adult ESL class for a public school district in San Antonio. The class met at night in a middle school. One evening I needed to get access to a classroom, so I asked the custodian for a key. He told me that he couldn’t give me the key, saying, “You’re not a real teacher.” I understood what he meant—I wasn’t one of the teachers who taught middle...

This is obviously late in coming.  I'm posting it because I think it provides good information and analysis.  The May Revise only partly changes Gov. Brown's Budget Proposal for Adult Ed.  We need all the help we can get in understanding the possible ramifications of it. Also, whatever happens or has happened in Adult Education these last six years, I imagine some day some graduate student or educational policy academic or historian will put it under a magnifying glass.  I certainly hope they do.  When that happens, blogs like this one will be important digs. Hit the link to read Jeff's analysis. Details of Governor’s Adult Education Proposal Made Public Mar 13th, 2015 | By CATESOL News | Category: Advocacy , News Jeff Frost By JEFF FROST —When the governor’s 2015-2016 state budget was unveiled in mid-January, adult education advocates were encouraged to see that it contained $500 million per year in ongoing funding to develop...

The May Revise is generally good news for Adult Schools.  You can read CCAE 's assessment of it here .   However...   Our old frenemies, the Community College system, would like to change some of that good news so that it is "good-er" for them and not us.   See:   Community Colleges Board of Governor's Meeting    Go to 58:35 to 1:00:55   Community Colleges are worried about being "frozen out" of the new Adult Ed Block Grant money.  Take a listen at  58:35 - 1:00:55 to hear what they say about Adult Ed and the new Regional Consortia system funding.   They fear a maintenance of effort in funding for K-12 Adult Ed will "eat up a lot of the funds available" . . .  in other words, they won't be able to access the money.   Reminder:  The Community College system, because it already gets money through apportionment, is worried about dessert, while we are worried about dinner.  (Thanks to San Mateo Adult School Dir...

From CCAE's Legislative Analyst, Dawn Koepke, good news about the May Revise of the Budget -      along with a call to action ( highlighted ): May Revise - Stability,  Certainty,  Identity....Progress   Words cannot describe the significant progress we have made together over the last four budget cycles.  Really.  When I began working with CCAE and CAEAA we were facing utter elimination and transfer to the community college system.  And here we are...just three budget proposals and May Revises later....stability, certainty, preserved identity....access for our students.  I'm so pleased with what we've accomplished together these past few years.    When we started off 2015 we were provided a good starting point in the Governor's FY 15-16 plan.  That said, there were a number of outstanding concerns and issues that needed to be addressed.  In a proactive fashion, we continued to engage the Depa...

The LAO is the Joe Friday of Government.  It is the job of the LAO - the Legislative Analyst Office - to analyze things and then provide "just the facts" and yes, some recommendations, too. So here they are the May Revise of the Budget for Adult Ed.   May 18, 2015 LAO     Various Improvements in May Revision Proposal Improvements Description Hit the "read more" link to get the facts. Strengthens Governance and Accountability   • Replaces allocation board with a governance structure determined by each regional   consortium. • Requires that a consortium member be r epresented only by an offi cial designated by the member’s governing board. • Requires that consortia consider proposed decisions (including approving regional plans and allocation schedules) at public meetings, request feedback from stakeholders, and consider and respond to comments about these decisions. • Requires alignment of consortia data with other adult and workforce education data. Be...

The AB86 Webinar on Friday, May 15th was on the May Revise. You can listen to it here: May 15, 2015 DOF on Trailer Bill Language and Adult Education Expenditure Reporting Survey for Fiscal Year 2012-13 - Download the Presentation:  PDF  |  PPTX -  Listen to the Recording

The money section  - beginning on page 9 - is highlighted in yellow. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Article 9 (commencing with Section 84900) is added to Chapter 5 of Part 50 of Division 7 of Title 3 of the Education Code, to read: Article 9. Adult Education Block Grant Program 84900. The Adult Education Block Grant Program is hereby established under the administration of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the Superintendent of Public Instruction. 84901. For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply, unless otherwise specified: (a) "Adult" means a person 18 years of age or older. (b) "Consortium" means an adult education consortium approved pursuant to this article. (c) "Executive director" means the executive director of the State Board of Education. (d) "Program" means the Adult Education Block Grant Program established by Section 84900. 84902. (a) The chancellor and ...