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From Kristen Pursley's Save Your Adult School blog : Adult School English as a Second Language and Citizenship Classes Must Be Offered Free Again – Let’s Keep It That Way! by kpursley Under California law, adult school English as a Second Language (ESL) and Citizenship classes must once again be offered free of charge. AB 189, a 2011 emergency measure allowing adult schools to charge for these classes until July 2015, expired this year, and was not renewed or extended.  AB 189 legitimized a haphazard pattern of charging for ESL and Citizenship classes that sprang up in the wake of California’s 2008 budget crisis and the resulting “categorical flexibility” that removed protections on state adult school funds.  While some districts chose not to charge for adult school ESL and Citizenship classes, others worked out their own systems for charging with no overall coordination at the state level or, often, consultation with neighboring districts. The result...

Dawn Koepke Legislative Analyst California Council of Adult Education A legislative update from Dawn Koepke, Legislative Analyst for CCAE (California Council of Adult Education): Moving Forward - Fee Authority, Administrative Cap, Concurrent Students & SB 786 (Allen) As we move forward in a post-AB 104 adult education era, we will undoubtedly become aware of components that need to be adjusted and/or reworked.  Some of the initial items we identified mid-summer needing legislative engagement included reinstating fee authority for ESL and citizenship programs and clarifying the interpretation of the 5% administrative cap. Click on the "read more" link to learn more. As you may recall, AB 189 passed in 2011 provided fee authority for adult schools to charge fees for classes in ESL and citizenship.  The caveat was that it was a time-limited authority that expired as of July 2015.  Going forward, there is no longer the authority for adult schools to charg...

From the Adult Education Advocates in the Montebello Community California Adult Education ______________________________________________                                                 A Newsletter on Adult Education in California August 2015 FEES IN ADULT EDUCATION NEED LEGISLATION THIS 2015 SESSION Legislation on fees in adult education is needed before the Legislature adjourns in September.  At a minimum, the provisions of AB 189 (Eng, 2011) need to be extended since they sunset on June 30th. AB 189 allowed fees in ESL/Citizenship classes, and supported districts as they sought to continue these course offerings. Click on the "read more" link to learn more. The fee legislation is needed because AB 104 (2015 budgt trailer bill that contains the Adul...

Kristen Pursley COSAS  Communities Organized to Support Adult Schools The following is a perspective piece from Kristen Pursley, founding member of COSAS  (Communities Organized to Support Adult Schools) and author of the Save Your Adult School Blog .   She is against charging fees for Adult Education.  She lays out her reasons for this and gives background on the topic in this letter to CCAE (California Council for Adult Education).       To: California Council for Adult Education (CCAE) Dear CCAE, As I renew my membership in CCAE, I wish to register my opposition to legislation that will lock in fees for adult school ESL and Citizenship classes.  As an ESL instructor in an adult school that has managed to survive without charging fees for these classes, I am very concerned that legislation allowing districts to  permanently charge for ESL and Citizenship  classes would greatly damage our program and shut many of our students out ...