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SB68 extends and clarifies language in AB540 allowing undocumented students to attend community colleges without paying non-resident fees.  Supporting SB68 as amended can help students in adult schools who are planning on transitioning to colleges. Support this bill by contacting your state senator . (a) A student, other than a nonimmigrant alien within the meaning of paragraph (15) of subsection (a) of Section 1101 of Title 8 of the United States Code,  who meets all of the following requirements  shall be exempt from paying nonresident tuition at the California State University and the California Community  Colleges:  Colleges if the student meets all of the following requirements: (1)  (A)   A total  of three or more years of  attendance  in California  or credits equivalent to three or more years of full -time attendance or credits at any of the following: (i)  California  elementary  schools, California ...

CFT Local 4681, out of San Mateo Adult School , passed the following resolution: Resolution to Ensure that Adult Education  Exists in Best and Fullest Capacity Whereas education is a human right for people of all ages, and Whereas Adult Schools have been serving the people of California from every community, including those with the greatest needs and least resources, for over 150 years, and Whereas, during the last recession, Adult Education was the only branch of public education in California which was nearly eliminated through a combination of funding cuts and allowing districts to take any and all adult school funds for other purposes (Categorial Flexibility), and Whereas K-12 adult schools were saved only through the determined action of teachers, students, administrators, and their allies, and Click the "read more" link to learn more. Whereas it was only as a result of this activism that the state recognized the need to fund adult education, which Governor Brown and th...

From Kristen Pursley's Save Your Adult School blog : Adult School English as a Second Language and Citizenship Classes Must Be Offered Free Again – Let’s Keep It That Way! by kpursley Under California law, adult school English as a Second Language (ESL) and Citizenship classes must once again be offered free of charge. AB 189, a 2011 emergency measure allowing adult schools to charge for these classes until July 2015, expired this year, and was not renewed or extended.  AB 189 legitimized a haphazard pattern of charging for ESL and Citizenship classes that sprang up in the wake of California’s 2008 budget crisis and the resulting “categorical flexibility” that removed protections on state adult school funds.  While some districts chose not to charge for adult school ESL and Citizenship classes, others worked out their own systems for charging with no overall coordination at the state level or, often, consultation with neighboring districts. The result...

Lick your finger and stick it in the air. Feel that? The wind is shifting. Hit the link to learn more and go here for the short version . The Back Story A year or two ago, many people - in and out of the Legislature - felt that Parent Education and Older Adults Adult Education programs were valuable but couldn't be saved.  We were coming out of a great scourge.  Between 70 and 100 Adult Schools had been closed (statistics vary).  All Adult Schools had shrunk in size and scope.   People were focused on survival.  At that time, many felt it was best to "go with the program" and the program was that Governor Brown and many in the Legislature wanted to narrow the focus of Adult Education and limit the funding to five programs.   A number of legislators felt differently and spoke up publically at various hearings - but they did not win out. Politics is a big, slow, messy process that is, ultimately, by, for, and about peop...

From Edsource : Governor’s proposed budget called “a gift” to adult education January 15, 2015 | By Susan Frey | No Comments Liv Ames for EdSource Marco Estrella, right, and Yu Liu practice English in an ESL class at San Mateo Adult School. Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email Share on pinterest_share More Sharing Services 67 The governor’s proposed budget , unveiled last week, allocates $500 million for an Adult Education Block Grant, with a provision that existing K-12 adult ed programs be funded for another year. The new funding allows more time for recently formed local consortia of adult schools, community colleges and other organizations that serve adults to determine what programs their communities need, how they will be funded and who is going to provide them. K-12 adult schools have been fighting for survival since the recession, when school districts were allowed to use funding formerly dedicated for adult schools for any educational purpose. Many districts, t...