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From Kristen Pursley's Save Your Adult School blog: LAO Adult Education Analysis 2018-19 The California Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) recently issued an Adult Education Analysis as part of the 2018-2019 budget process. A link to the report is here: http://www.lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3752 The report recommends eight changes to the adult education system in California. Some of the recommendations are intriguing, others problematic. Just for fun, I’m going to rate them on the following scale: YES    YES,BUT   PROCEED WITH CAUTION NEED MORE INFORMATION   NO Here are the recommendations and their Save Your Adult School ratings: The adoption of a student ID number that could be used to identify students in both the adult school and community college systems  PROCEED WITH CAUTION A uniform funding rate for community colleges and adult schools NEED MORE INFORMATION The elimination of course fees or adoption of a single “nominal” charge ELIMIN...

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...