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The LAO - the Legislative Analyst Office - has recommended getting rid of the K-12 Adult School credential.  ( Read more here .) Please take this survey to share your own opinion and ideas on this topic. The survey will be closed at the end of April and results will be shared here on the Adult Education Matters blog.

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 - the Legislative Analyst Office - recently came out with a Report on Adult Education .  The report was posted on Adult Education Matters Facebook page.   Several readers responded.  With permission, here is Jean MacDonald's response (below the pertinent recommendations from the LAO Report.). The LAO Report's Recommendations on Credentialing "No Longer Require Adult School Instructors to Hold a Credential. We recommend the Legislature amend statute so that individuals no longer need a teaching credential to serve as instructors at adult schools. By aligning qualifications for instructors, instructors could readily teach adult education courses at both community colleges and adult schools. Moreover, the change could help adult schools in hiring teachers. If the state has concerns about the quality of adult education instructors, it could encourage consortia to provide professional development as needed." - From the 2018 LAO Report on Adult Education http://la...