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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...

Information for funding Adult Education is now in the "Investing in California's Workforce" section of the budget.  In the past, there was information about Adult Education in the K12 and Higher Education sections.  It seems Governor Brown is slowly but surely framing Adult Education as being less about education and more about work.  That's a nice way to avoid the truth Adult Education is and always has been - for over 150 years - part of the educational system of California.  And while Adult Education includes job skills training, just like people, Adult Education is about more than just work. No matter what you call it or where you put it in the budget, Adult Education is not seen, treated and funded in the same way all other branches of Public Education are. It is high time that Adult Education be given the Education Equality that Californians need and deserve. #EducationEquality4AE now! Here is the information from Governor Brown's ebudget about Adult Educ...