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Adult Education Update from CCAE - California Council for Adult Education epor : Adult Education Block Grant Program: Report AB 1846 (Lopez):  Adult Education Blog Grant Program (Report)   Current law requires the chancellor and the Superintendent to submit to the Director of Finance, the State Board of Education, and the Legislature, by September 30 following any year for which funds are appropriated for the Adult Education Block Grant (AEBG) Program, a report about the use of specified funds and outcomes for adults statewide and in each adult education region. this bill would require that report to also include a summary, based upon a review of the annual adult education plan for each consortium, of the extent to which funds from the program provided to each consortium, in combination with other funds available to the consortium and other entities that provide education and workforce services for adults in the region, were insufficient to address the adult educat...

With permission from Kristen Pursley: Why California’s Adult Schools Need More Money Posted on March 26, 2016 by kpursley   While California’s economy  rebounds, and educational institutions from K-12 schools to universities receive healthy increases in funding, California’s adult schools remain mired in the great recession.  A new bill authored by Assemblywoman Patty Lopez (D-San Fernando), AB 1846, seeks to remedy this situation. AB 1846 would increase the Adult Education Block Grant (AEBG)  by $250 million, returning the amount of funding available to adult schools to roughly  pre-recession levels.  AB 1846 would provide sorely-needed relief to adult schools, which have been woefully underfunded for the last eight years. In addition to hampering the ability of adult schools to provide much needed services to their students, the current inadequate level of funding also locks into place inequalities that are the result of a desperate scramble for sur...

Assemblymember Patty Lopez has introduced AB 1112, which would provide state funding for Family Literacy and Parent Education.  State funding for Parent Education will otherwise end on June 30th, 2015, as Parent Education is not one of the five core programs funded through AB86 .  Analysis of Assembly Bill 1112 (Lopez) Date of Hearing: April 8, 2015 ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION  Patrick O'Donnell, Chair  AB 1112 (Lopez) – As Amended March 26, 2015  [Note: This bill is doubled referred to the Assembly Higher Education Committee and will be heard by that Committee as it relates to issues under its jurisdiction.] SUBJECT : Adult education: consortia: parenting education: family literacy education  SUMMARY : Authorizes adult programs, California Community Colleges (CCC) noncredit courses and classes, and the adult education regional consortia, established pursuant to Education Code (EC) Section 84830, to provide family literacy education. Specifically, t...

Destabilization leads to problems. Destabilization makes an individual, a group, or an institution vulnerable to disease, infiltration, attack, and at worst, death or extinction. Stabilization not only keeps the individual, group or institution strong, it enables the individual, group or institution to provide shelter, support, and sustenance to others.  Help or harm - in domino effect. Hit the "read more" link to see how that plays out in Berkeley. All K12 Adult Schools have been destabilized since Governor Schwartzenegger flexed their funding in 2009. This has led to over 70 Adult Schools closing and all of them shrinking.  There is now a Charter Adult School in the Sacramento Area.  And private enterprises consider Adult Education a prime market to enter and expand.  "While adult education has long been a “hidden” market, its programs often “shoved off in a corner,” all that seems to be changing, says to Pearson SVP Jason Jordan. “Suddenly it’s becoming a much mor...