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Assemblymember Patty Lopez has introduced AB 1112, which would provide state funding for Family Literacy and Parent Education.  State funding for Parent Education will otherwise end on June 30th, 2015, as Parent Education is not one of the five core programs funded through AB86 .  Analysis of Assembly Bill 1112 (Lopez) Date of Hearing: April 8, 2015 ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION  Patrick O'Donnell, Chair  AB 1112 (Lopez) – As Amended March 26, 2015  [Note: This bill is doubled referred to the Assembly Higher Education Committee and will be heard by that Committee as it relates to issues under its jurisdiction.] SUBJECT : Adult education: consortia: parenting education: family literacy education  SUMMARY : Authorizes adult programs, California Community Colleges (CCC) noncredit courses and classes, and the adult education regional consortia, established pursuant to Education Code (EC) Section 84830, to provide family literacy education. Specifically, t...

Poling Tang is a student in the Writing Intensive class taught by Mary Peros at San Mateo Adult School.  The Writing Intensive class helps ESL students develop writing skills for college, career, and civic engagement. Poling wrote the following essay as extra homework during Spring Break, " to express my gratitude to the adult school education system which plays an important role in my journey of life." Thank you, Poling, for writing this remarkable essay and for sharing it with the larger community.  And thank you, Teacher Mary, for helping your students to give voice to their wisdom in the English language. Hit the link to read her amazing essay. High Quality Education within the Adult School System John Adams, the Second U.S. President said: “There are two educations.  One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.” (1)   Furthermore, John Jay, the First U.S. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court said that “I consider knowledge to be the sou...

Got concerns about the MOE and funding?  Debra Jones says, "Your voices matter and your perspectives are important especially during this time." "Use the AB86 inbox ," she advises, to communicate your questions and concerns to the Department of Education and the Chancellor's Office. You can hear all this on the March 20th AB86 Technical Webinar at about 10 minutes in. To hear this section and more, go to the AB86 Technical Webinar page and click on "Listen to the Recording."  March 20, 2015 AB 86 Planning Fund Extension - Download the Presentation: PDF  |  PPTX - Listen to the Recording Here is my transcription of the section in which Debra Jones advises emailing AB86 your questions and concerns: ...urgency for the state to determine what the MOE is to prepare and determine the funding formula. We don’t want there to be a gap between planning funding and implementation funding. So we’ve done a couple of things. We’ve extended...

Tuesday, March 24th at 9 am in Room 444 in the State Capitol building, Assembly Budget Sub Committee 2 (Education Finance) will meet to look at the money aspect of Adult Education. Needless to say, that's important. Committee Members are: Assembly Member Kevin McCarty , Chair AM  Rocky Chavez - Rep           AM Chavez was at the Jan 29th, 2014 Oversight Hearing on Adult Ed and spoke about the need not to ask schools to do too much all at once as we move through these many reforms in Public Ed. AM  Young O. Kim - Rep          AM Kim represents an area that includes the North Orange County Regional Consortia        AM  Patrick O' Donnell - Dem      AM O' Donnell taught school for 20 years. "A firm believer in ensuring access to career technical education and vocational opportunities, he helped establish an afterschool di...

"Trailer Bill Language is the implementing language of the California State Budget Bill. On this webpage , you can find the Regular Session and Special Session Trailer Bill Language for this year's Governor's Budget." Here is the Adult Education Block Trailer Bill language : Hit the link to see it... An act to add Article 9 (commencing with Section 84900) to Chapter 5 of Part 50 of Division 7 of Title 3 of the Education Code, relating to adult education. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1.   Article 9 (commencing with Section 84900) is added to Chapter 5 of Part 50 of Division 7 of Title 3 of the Education Code, to read: Article 9.  Adult Education Block Grant Program 84900.   The Adult Education Block Grant program is hereby established. 84901.   For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply, unless otherwise specified: (a) “Chancellor” means the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges. (b) “Co...

The video of Wednesday's Joint Legislative Informational Hearing on Adult Education: Moving Forward is available on The California Channel.   Click here to go right to the video . This was an informational hearing. In other words, no one voted on anything. It was a sort of check-in on the whole AB86 process.  Folks checked in to report what is happening in the whole mighty, messy, complicated everyone come together under the big tent Regional Consortia Creation Game.  The legislature needs to know what is happening and how things are going and whether or not people are being served or will be served or won't be served because the Legislature will be voting on these matters in future when it votes on a budget.  I highly recommend that you watch or listen to it as you chop vegetables, fold laundry, flea-comb your cat, or perform some similar task which enables you to listen while you work. It is a long, meaty hearing full of information about what is hap...

First... wait a minute... wasn't this not supposed to happen anymore? What about the Maintenance of Effort Clause? Or... if the MOE Clause is ending... what about the Maintenance of Capacity thing? And what does that mean, anyway?  Does it mean that so long as a Regional Consortia is maintaining capacity, it doesn't matter who provides the Adult Education? Which means that Adult Schools can be closed again? We need to know because, indeed, it is happening again.  Acalanes School District Approves Layoffs As It Grapples With Budget Deficit   San Jose Mercury News, March 6, 2015  Acalanes Adult School Graduation "In a bid to slash a projected $5.4 million deficit this year, Acalanes Union High School District leaders have agreed to layoffs that spell the end of a 70-year-old adult education program." "Governing board members and student board member Sean McFeely voted unanimously Wednesday night to approve the layoffs of eight full-time staff memb...