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Adult Ed Staff and Supporters! Good and urgent news: Good news:   Allies and CCAE have made great progress in pushing forward a way for us to measure --- because let's face it, right now at this point in US history, everything has to be measured --- community "success" --- specifically immigrant integration metrics. Why is this important?  Because in order for something to get funded, legislators need to see and measure it.   That's how things work. If we want something funded - we need to show a need, show how the need is met, measure results, etc. If we can measure immigrant integration, it will be possible to get it funded. Some schools promote college, career, and community --- but officially, statewide, the mission of Adult Ed is essentially college and career. AB2098 COULD CHANGE THAT! We Need to Support AB 2098 What’s AB 2098? AB 2098 is legislation sponsored by * Kevin McCarty - a former Adult School student out of Sacramento - * and co-sponsored by To...

From CCAE - California Council for Adult Education   Key factors to consider for AB-2098 - Adult Education Block Grant Program: Immigration Integration Key Points for CCAE Support reporting immigrant integration metrics 1.       It’s who we are 2.       We need to show effectiveness through other metrics 3.       The data is already there 4.       We don’t have to do more 5.       This is not a mandate It’s who we are California Adult Education was founded in the K12 system with a focus of integrating immigrants into California so that they could be productive members of their communities. This is one of our most distinguishable aspects and separates us as unique among the education providers in California. We need to show effectiveness through other metrics Demonstrating effectiveness through our current Adult Education Program metrics does not adequately ...