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Immigrant integration! What do you know about it? How do you talk about it? Where and how is it discussed in your consortium? Is it integrated into your consortium's plans for the future? Are you including immigrant voices in your discussion of and planning for? Are you including adult learner voices in your discussion of and planning for? These are pivotal questions as we continue to shape and refine the new form that Adult Education is taking post catastrophic cuts and closures and into the narrowed mission, workforce-focused Regional Consortia system.  Is the new form okay?  Does it need tweaking?  Now - in budget season and while there is money to spend - is the time to look at what we have and where it can be improved to better serve the people of California. Thank you to Bob Harper and Usha Narayanan - who presented on this topic at the CCAE Bay Conference on Saturday, March 3rd in the " ALLIES and the Immigrant Integration Framework " workshop. To better understa...

Educators, please take this survey created by the BATs’ Quality of Life Team about Gun Violence in our schools. -   https://www. surveymonkey.com/r/8LCGWDC   BATs - Badass Teachers Association

Recently the LAO recommended that K12 Adult Education - Adult Schools - no longer require a teaching credential. Here's what they said: "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://lao.ca.gov/…/2018-19-Adult-Education-Analysis-021518… Adult School Credential - Require or Don't Require - Major Policy Change If we are going to make a major policy change and no longer require a teaching credential ...

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...

The LAO Report is out - with a clear and easy read chart comparing Adult Ed in Adult Schools and Community Colleges as well as recommendations on those differences.  You can read it here . And here it is without the chart because copying and pasting doesn't work for the chart.  The chart is CLEAR and EASY TO READ so I highly recommend clicking on the link above and scrolling to page 3 and reading it. Here's the rest of the report starting with the summary: Summary Recommend Revamping Funding for Adult Education and Aligning Certain Policies. The state restructured its adult education system in 2013-14 with the intent of fostering greater coordination among providers—primarily community colleges and adult schools. After five years, several key fiscal and policy inconsistencies remain across the two sets of providers. Most notably, adult programs offered by community colleges and adult schools have different funding rules, different fee policies, different instructor qualificati...