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San Mateo Federation of Teachers Local 4681 of California Federation of Teachers Representing the Teachers of San Mateo Adult School July 14, 2018 Re:  AB 2098 (McCarty and Thurmond) - Support Dear Assembly Members McCarty and Thurmond, We the teachers of CFT Local 4681 are writing to thank you for authoring  AB 2098 - the bill that establishes immigrant integration metrics. We are very much in support of it. We are teachers at San Mateo Adult School .  Most of us teach English as a Second Language.   Others teach in the GED and High School Diploma, Career Tech Education, or Fifty Plus (Older Adults) programs. Our school is part of ACCEL, the Regional Consortium providing Adult Education for the County of San Mateo. A few facts about the area we serve: As of 2010, San Mateo County ranked fourth among counties in California and eight across the nation in the concentration of foreign-born residents. Between 2000 and 2010 San Mateo County’s immigrant population incre...

Adult Ed Staff and Supporters! Good and urgent news: Good news:   Allies and CCAE have made great progress in pushing forward a way for us to measure --- because let's face it, right now at this point in US history, everything has to be measured --- community "success" --- specifically immigrant integration metrics. Why is this important?  Because in order for something to get funded, legislators need to see and measure it.   That's how things work. If we want something funded - we need to show a need, show how the need is met, measure results, etc. If we can measure immigrant integration, it will be possible to get it funded. Some schools promote college, career, and community --- but officially, statewide, the mission of Adult Ed is essentially college and career. AB2098 COULD CHANGE THAT! We Need to Support AB 2098 What’s AB 2098? AB 2098 is legislation sponsored by * Kevin McCarty - a former Adult School student out of Sacramento - * and co-sponsored by To...