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From Edsource : Adult Education Website tracks state's progress in providing adult education By Susan Frey | January 12, 2016 | 1 Comment Liv Ames for EdSource Marco Estrella, right, and Yu Liu practice English in an ESL class at San Mateo Adult School. California’s experiment in rethinking adult education can now be monitored through a website created by the Legislative Analyst’s Office.   Click the "read more" link to learn more. The LAO recently released the Adult Education Consortium Tracker , which provides demographic, funding and student enrollment data for 71 consortia made up of school districts, community colleges and other community agencies that serve adults. The website also gives background information and shows how each consortium’s demographics compare to the state. The site includes an interactive map locating the 71 consortia, lists of training programs, their budgets and career technical information that used to be scattered across many sites, said De...

The July 10, 2015 Technical Webinar had a lot of helpful information to help guide us through new waters we're sailing through. Implementation Focus Group's Draft Guidelines                Listen to the Recording

This is obviously late in coming.  I'm posting it because I think it provides good information and analysis.  The May Revise only partly changes Gov. Brown's Budget Proposal for Adult Ed.  We need all the help we can get in understanding the possible ramifications of it. Also, whatever happens or has happened in Adult Education these last six years, I imagine some day some graduate student or educational policy academic or historian will put it under a magnifying glass.  I certainly hope they do.  When that happens, blogs like this one will be important digs. Hit the link to read Jeff's analysis. Details of Governor’s Adult Education Proposal Made Public Mar 13th, 2015 | By CATESOL News | Category: Advocacy , News Jeff Frost By JEFF FROST —When the governor’s 2015-2016 state budget was unveiled in mid-January, adult education advocates were encouraged to see that it contained $500 million per year in ongoing funding to develop...