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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...

Cristina Ulrich and Denise Carrasco are students at San Mateo Adult School .  They are currently in the GED and High School Diploma program, respectively, and formerly in the ESL program.  They both served as Student Leaders on the SMAS Student Council.  Cristina was Vice President of the Morning Student Council and Denise was President of the same.  They are advocates for Adult Education and Adult Schools and have attended and presented at numerous conferences, including regional and state CCAE conferences and the national AAACE conference.  Recently, they attended the Network for Public Education 2017 Conference in Oakland.  Here is their report: Cristina, Denise, Cynthia at NPE 2017 We are Cristina Ulrich and Denise Carrasco, former ESL students at San Mateo Adult School. For a long time we have been interested in adult education and student leadership, which are two of the reasons that have kept us helping and participating in the school´s activities. W...