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Take the Survey on Gun Violence in Schools

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Educators, please take this survey created by the BATs’ Quality of Life Team about Gun Violence in our schools. -   https://www. surveymonkey.com/r/8LCGWDC   BATs - Badass Teachers Association

Adult Ed Credential and Credentialing Programs: Keep, Change or Throw Away?

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Recently the LAO recommended that K12 Adult Education - Adult Schools - no longer require a teaching credential. Here's what they said: "No Longer Require Adult School Instructors to Hold a Credential. We recommend the Legislature amend statute so that individuals no longer need a teaching credential to serve as instructors at adult schools. By aligning qualifications for instructors, instructors could readily teach adult education courses at both community colleges and adult schools. Moreover, the change could help adult schools in hiring teachers. If the state has concerns about the quality of adult education instructors, it could encourage consortia to provide professional development as needed." - From the 2018 LAO Report on Adult Education http://lao.ca.gov/…/2018-19-Adult-Education-Analysis-021518… Adult School Credential - Require or Don't Require - Major Policy Change If we are going to make a major policy change and no longer require a teaching credential ...

Perspective: Jean MacDonald on Credentials

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The LAO - the Legislative Analyst Office - recently came out with a Report on Adult Education .  The report was posted on Adult Education Matters Facebook page.   Several readers responded.  With permission, here is Jean MacDonald's response (below the pertinent recommendations from the LAO Report.). The LAO Report's Recommendations on Credentialing "No Longer Require Adult School Instructors to Hold a Credential. We recommend the Legislature amend statute so that individuals no longer need a teaching credential to serve as instructors at adult schools. By aligning qualifications for instructors, instructors could readily teach adult education courses at both community colleges and adult schools. Moreover, the change could help adult schools in hiring teachers. If the state has concerns about the quality of adult education instructors, it could encourage consortia to provide professional development as needed." - From the 2018 LAO Report on Adult Education http://la...

2018 LAO Report on Adult Ed

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The LAO Report is out - with a clear and easy read chart comparing Adult Ed in Adult Schools and Community Colleges as well as recommendations on those differences.  You can read it here . And here it is without the chart because copying and pasting doesn't work for the chart.  The chart is CLEAR and EASY TO READ so I highly recommend clicking on the link above and scrolling to page 3 and reading it. Here's the rest of the report starting with the summary: Summary Recommend Revamping Funding for Adult Education and Aligning Certain Policies. The state restructured its adult education system in 2013-14 with the intent of fostering greater coordination among providers—primarily community colleges and adult schools. After five years, several key fiscal and policy inconsistencies remain across the two sets of providers. Most notably, adult programs offered by community colleges and adult schools have different funding rules, different fee policies, different instructor qualificati...