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View this email in your browser Iván Carrillo Legislative Advocate Association of California School Administrators ACSA is committed to ensuring all students, family members, and employees have access to a safe, equitable, and supportive educational environment. To this end, ACSA developed a guidance sheet to give educational leaders answers to key legal questions related to undocumented students that may come up in light of potential changes at the federal level. ACSA will continue to be a leader in protecting the legal rights of all students to attend school, regardless of the immigration status of the child or their family member...

Check out the report from the Migration Policy Institute: "Immigrants and WIOA Services:  Comparison of Sociodemographic Characteristics of Native- and Foreign-Born Adults in California." This December 2015 report is chock full of facts useful to understanding the needs of Californians and Adult Education can meet them.  For example, between 2009 and 13, 42% of the adult population between the ages of 25 and 44 were born outside of the US. Check the report for more facts!

The AB86 Technical Webinars are always chock full of practical information.  You can listen live and participate or you can listen to the recordings later.  The powerpoints and recordings are posted here .  The most recent Webinar dealt with the nittier grittier aspects as we move fully into this new Adult Education Regional Consortia delivery system come July 1.     Listen to the webinar here .   Hit the link to see the slides.    

The LAO is the Joe Friday of Government.  It is the job of the LAO - the Legislative Analyst Office - to analyze things and then provide "just the facts" and yes, some recommendations, too. So here they are the May Revise of the Budget for Adult Ed.   May 18, 2015 LAO     Various Improvements in May Revision Proposal Improvements Description Hit the "read more" link to get the facts. Strengthens Governance and Accountability   • Replaces allocation board with a governance structure determined by each regional   consortium. • Requires that a consortium member be r epresented only by an offi cial designated by the member’s governing board. • Requires that consortia consider proposed decisions (including approving regional plans and allocation schedules) at public meetings, request feedback from stakeholders, and consider and respond to comments about these decisions. • Requires alignment of consortia data with other adult and workforce education data. Be...

From left to right, Bruce Neuberger, George & Kristen Pursley Cynthia Eagleton At the 2015 Network for Public Education Conference in Chicago , Kristen Pursley, Bruce Neuberger, and I presented a panel entitled, "The Battle for Adult Education." The Conference was deep and powerful. An AEM post on the conference is coming soon.  Cuts and reform in California Adult Education are part of a larger puzzle affecting every piece of Public Education in the US.  To understand what is happening in Adult Education in California - and to influence it in a positive direction - we need to understand what is happening elsewhere - and we need historical context. Historical context is what Kristen provided at our panel discussion.  Kristen is a lead ESL teacher at West Contra Costa Adult School.  She is a founding member of COSAS - Communities Organized to Support Adult Schools, a group that formed in response to the cuts six years ago and has met w...