tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79967552696870666012024-03-05T14:02:25.464-08:00Alliance for California Adult Schools (A4CAS)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996755269687066601.post-44946915005322923972020-07-10T10:24:00.000-07:002020-07-10T10:24:56.767-07:00Public Education 2020<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova-condensed, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 1.5em; max-width: 700px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">
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Posted below is a comment from <a href="https://africam.berkeley.edu/people/hardy-frye/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">Hardy Frye</a> in response to <a href="https://edsource.org/2020/schools-should-not-open-until-safety-is-assured-california-teachers-association-tells-state/635625?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=schools-should-not-open-until-safety-is-assured-california-teachers-association-tells-state-07-09-20&fbclid=IwAR2dNbFh-2QJ3z0VLAfX54xPtj_qGNGgj3oPs_e0UoOhpEJ2MgBU5fI56Po" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">this article in EdSource</a>:</div>
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<i>There appears to be a moral righteousness attached to those convinced that we can and should open schools safely within 4-6 weeks. This is based on the irreplaceable connections with teachers and the academic and social interactions they provide in those classrooms to support student learning and growth. It is very uplifting that the status of the classroom teacher is recognized for what it is – teachers are worth their weight in gold and invaluable to our society. Hopefully moving on, that status will be operationalized in ways that support the profession! No one can challenge the urgent need for students to be in school with their teachers and staff wanting intact schools!</i></div>
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<i>However, it is also a moral imperative to be honest about the conditions we are confronting and the need to keep students and adults safe. In classrooms, 5 minutes can feel like a lifetime- there is so much going on all the time. Unlike visiting a doctor and getting a haircut, which are static environments, classrooms and schools are highly interactive environments and yet, folks who should know better, talk about them as if they are not. What seems to have risen to the surface are very vocal advocates of starting the year with in-person instruction with groups of individuals even though it has not been determined safe to visit a salon or meet 1:1 with a physician. </i></div>
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<i>I am not even going to get into the lack of supplies, lack of national guarantees that any and all staff who contract the virus will not lose salary, the lack of personnel, poor air quality, on and on, because, we can all add to that list of concerns. Also, consider the trauma caused by having to close a school because of staff or students getting sick; that includes personal and organizational trauma. I very rarely hear that even mentioned.</i></div>
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<i>The bottom line must be safety. Politics, rhetoric and wishful thinking have no place in any decisions about how and when we safely open our schools. Admittedly, our country, unlike many others, has no collective experience or context for experiencing this type of duress and that may account for our inability to halt the spread and generate unsound conclusions. This virus presents a challenge to our resilience, integrity and commitment to each other. This is a test of how honest do we dare to be.</i></div>
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<i>Until safety thresholds are met, when doctors can see patients, for example, we need to focus on improving internet access, strengthening online learning strategies and family supports while we keep our students, our school staff and our communities safe. Yes, safe from strokes, from neurological, respiratory, other physical and emotional disabilities and even death. </i></div>
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<i>This is written with deep acknowledgement to those who have lost loved ones, those who are sick and for the safety of our school communities.</i></div>
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<strong>What's Next? Renewed Advocacy More Critical than Ever!</strong></div>
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<strong>Heading into year three of the Adult Education Block Grant (AEBG), adult schools and community colleges continue to make strides in collaborating and serving adult students in need for basic skills, ESL, citizenship, short term career training, and more. Unfortunately, however, that great work and the vital role adult schools play in the dual delivery system that is AEBG is not being sufficiently conveyed to the Legislature at the local level. As such, it would seem that adult education is again slowly sinking back in to the background to be the best kept secret again in education. This is problematic on many levels - particularly at a time when funding for adult schools is almost exclusively coming via AEBG and the resources aren't matching the needs in regions across the state. The policy-makers need to know about K-12 adult education and the unique population we serve.</strong></div>
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<strong>Further, as a result of the disconnected data and accountability systems between adult schools and our community college partners, three years in to AEBG we are having difficulty proving our successes. The inability to document our success and account for the over $1.5 billion over the last few years is resulting in mounting tension in the Capitol at a time when the Legislature should be scrambling to further invest in the adult education system under AEBG. Despite statewide adult education advocacy efforts this budget cycle, adult education was the only system that did not receive some semblance of a funding increase or COLA. This is highly concerning, particularly as we see the needs increasing statewide, immigrant communities desperately in search of safe environments to access training, homelessness skyrocketing, and sectors like healthcare in desperate search of adults who have skill sets provided for as part of adult education's short-term career programming. Support for adult education and AEBG should be a slam dunk and seen as a cost-effective, successful avenue by which to take advantage of pathways and opportunities to move adults in to postsecondary education and the workforce. Instead, tensions are mounting and we're feeling like we are back on the brink of tough times. </strong></div>
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<strong>The good news - it's early and we're ramping up our advocacy efforts for the next year and budget cycle! However, we cannot do it alone - we need you!</strong></div>
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<strong>As we've discussed many times, success can be viewed in the context of a three legged stool - where grassroots advocacy, political engagement and lobbying come together is where success is found. Over the past couple of months, the leadership of CCAE and CAEAA have put together an <a alt="http://files.constantcontact.com/9f3bd723201/8e913d70-9805-4260-8aa8-ee0c0b42c667.pdf" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001iWrHqLmDucpIjAvWByMYNxQRRJMucQ9hxsP7zHDfOXRlX7HKldOuDGTfk2YglRWx5bYWgnvYwsHjXFUflN88d4lnvAG6rKRXm4tag4dMSn41g4TEPpRmyT_X1zQfC434czCaL51_MS79HnhYXQaYog4iqHf6JLFdQsPwDV6t2MWFnwTT_nw_SHTFIZThULdKJKznTQUcytX9rUaZUxJn6Ufs2soShLkhr_xkwhytKkUCvTqFwLXU7s74Khh3DqdA%26c%3DUFfZMf7EXMKLGMSP_Gt28dWPKPeJfuP1Qbast7U8loxvfUmRGLu7qw%3D%3D%26ch%3D9qYchG6SWA1GDlz08_3-v1_2vhs7Blc8YRDMgVoYQZfJMgiyvzxIPQ%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1502001789506000&usg=AFQjCNGFLDOSm7WBEUxZnCtpi3nsYU86eg" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001iWrHqLmDucpIjAvWByMYNxQRRJMucQ9hxsP7zHDfOXRlX7HKldOuDGTfk2YglRWx5bYWgnvYwsHjXFUflN88d4lnvAG6rKRXm4tag4dMSn41g4TEPpRmyT_X1zQfC434czCaL51_MS79HnhYXQaYog4iqHf6JLFdQsPwDV6t2MWFnwTT_nw_SHTFIZThULdKJKznTQUcytX9rUaZUxJn6Ufs2soShLkhr_xkwhytKkUCvTqFwLXU7s74Khh3DqdA&c=UFfZMf7EXMKLGMSP_Gt28dWPKPeJfuP1Qbast7U8loxvfUmRGLu7qw==&ch=9qYchG6SWA1GDlz08_3-v1_2vhs7Blc8YRDMgVoYQZfJMgiyvzxIPQ==" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">advocacy plan for FY 17-18</a> that will help promote adult education and specifically adult schools, paving the pathway for further investment in AEBG and better solidifying the critical dual delivery system that provides numerous on-ramps for adult students looking for pathways to postsecondary education and the workforce. The plan (<a alt="http://files.constantcontact.com/9f3bd723201/8e913d70-9805-4260-8aa8-ee0c0b42c667.pdf" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001iWrHqLmDucpIjAvWByMYNxQRRJMucQ9hxsP7zHDfOXRlX7HKldOuDGTfk2YglRWx5bYWgnvYwsHjXFUflN88d4lnvAG6rKRXm4tag4dMSn41g4TEPpRmyT_X1zQfC434czCaL51_MS79HnhYXQaYog4iqHf6JLFdQsPwDV6t2MWFnwTT_nw_SHTFIZThULdKJKznTQUcytX9rUaZUxJn6Ufs2soShLkhr_xkwhytKkUCvTqFwLXU7s74Khh3DqdA%26c%3DUFfZMf7EXMKLGMSP_Gt28dWPKPeJfuP1Qbast7U8loxvfUmRGLu7qw%3D%3D%26ch%3D9qYchG6SWA1GDlz08_3-v1_2vhs7Blc8YRDMgVoYQZfJMgiyvzxIPQ%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1502001789506000&usg=AFQjCNGFLDOSm7WBEUxZnCtpi3nsYU86eg" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001iWrHqLmDucpIjAvWByMYNxQRRJMucQ9hxsP7zHDfOXRlX7HKldOuDGTfk2YglRWx5bYWgnvYwsHjXFUflN88d4lnvAG6rKRXm4tag4dMSn41g4TEPpRmyT_X1zQfC434czCaL51_MS79HnhYXQaYog4iqHf6JLFdQsPwDV6t2MWFnwTT_nw_SHTFIZThULdKJKznTQUcytX9rUaZUxJn6Ufs2soShLkhr_xkwhytKkUCvTqFwLXU7s74Khh3DqdA&c=UFfZMf7EXMKLGMSP_Gt28dWPKPeJfuP1Qbast7U8loxvfUmRGLu7qw==&ch=9qYchG6SWA1GDlz08_3-v1_2vhs7Blc8YRDMgVoYQZfJMgiyvzxIPQ==" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">here</a>) is comprehensive - utilizing strategies that touch each leg of the stool to help ensure success. It will be a multi-faceted effort that will consist of state-based activities and those you will undertake at the local level. While I can appreciate how much you all have on your plate already, but the lack of visibility is a problem which could mean disaster for adult education if left to fester unaddressed. In this regard, your efforts at the local level will be a critical component of the success we all hope to achieve in the FY 18-19 budget cycle that will hopefully entail increased resources and a stronger AEBG dual delivery system.</strong></div>
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<strong>First, all adult schools should revise/create a fact sheet (one-page, back and front is okay) that provides an overview of your adult school, programs offered, students served, career pathway information, partnerships, regional consortium identification, etc. This needs to be completed by mid-September in preparation for state and local advocacy this fall. Upon completion, each adult school should send a copy to CCAE and CAEAA and prepare to include it in future packets for local grassroots advocacy efforts. See attached sample fact sheet, but feel free to develop something different that better suits your adult school.</strong></div>
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<strong>Second, as we begin a new school year all adult schools should maintain some semblance of a list and/or headcount (can be informal) of students seeking services, but who were turned away due to capacity challenges as well as any information you may have about where/if they go somewhere else. Certainly the Annual Plans to be turned in this month will contain these data about unmet need and it is critical this information be highlighted in our advocacy as well. We've spoken at length the last couple of years about the fact that the current AEBG funding isn't sufficient to serve the needs; however, to date this has been merely anecdote. Sure, we have population data and demographics that help speak to the needs not being served, but we need better information regarding who actually comes to the door but is turned away due to a lack of capacity. If you are in an adult school that has spent your AEBG allocation and is turning away students because you cannot expand your capacity, your rough data on students turned away is critically important to receive. </strong></div>
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<strong>Additionally as you know, this year we attempted to obtain a COLA to provide some meager funding cushion for adult schools whose costs have increased but AEBG allocation has not. We fully understand the rising costs will ultimately impact access and capacity at adult schools who may have - and some who already have - to ultimately cut classes in order to remain within budget. Unfortunately, we've been chastised for asking for more resources when not all consortia have spent the allocation they've received. In this regard, we ask that you provide insight to CCAE and CAEAA about whether you've spent all of your AEBG allocation to date and why you've not if that is the case. Additionally, we need to know if you and those in your consortia have not spent the allocated AEBG resources, do you have a plan to spend it down in this budget year? Although each consortium reports what they have not spent, we need to know more specifically about what K-12 adult schools are doing and what they might need. Without being able to better understand what is really happening in the field and why some consortia and/or members are not spending their allocation, we cannot adequately respond to the criticism so as to help those who are spending their allocations to maximize access and programming for as many students as possible. </strong></div>
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<strong>- All students, classified staff, teachers and administrators sign up for their local elected Senator's and Assemblymember's electronic newsletter. You merely go to the following site <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" shape="rect" style="color: #222222;">http://findyourrep.<wbr></wbr>legislature.ca.gov/</a>, enter your home address, click on the members' links and sign up for their newsletters on their websites. These newsletters will provide information about what is going on in the district, including office and sidewalk hours when anyone from their district is welcome to drop in to say hello and get to know the member.</strong></div>
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<strong>If all adult schools tackled these few items in the next two months, we would be well on our way to the next steps in our advocacy plan. Your engagement and support is critical to paving the path forward for adult education to be a key component in the FY 18-19 budget next budget cycle. </strong></div>
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<strong>We hope you are up to the task of being a critical partner in this effort. Ultimately, this is all focused on placing additional pressure to further support adult education in the Governor's January 2018 roll-out of the FY 18-19 budget package. Later this fall, we'll be coming back to you with talking points, specific member meet-and-greet details, PR activities, letter writing campaigns, and much more. Thank you in advance for your engagement - strength in numbers!!!</strong></div>
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<a href="http://www.house.gov/htbin/findrep">Please call your US House Representative</a> now and ask them to vote NO on House Bill 610 the Choices in Education Act. This bill will effectively start the defunding process of public schools, in hand with eliminating student rights and programs that address poverty, etc. It also takes away nutritional standards for school lunches.</div>
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If you want to make calls but are nervous or unsure about what to say on the phone (for this or for any other issue,) you can always keep it simple and just state your name, your zip code, and then say "I am calling to oppose/support _________." In this case: "I'm calling to oppose House Bill 610, The Choices in Education Act, introduced in the house."</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Click </span><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.house.gov/htbin/findrep">HERE</a></span><span style="color: blue;"> for your U.S. REPRESENTATIVE's phone number.</span></h2>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996755269687066601.post-26598410899164706942016-12-03T08:02:00.001-08:002016-12-03T08:02:28.833-08:00CALL TO ACTION! Request more funding for Adult Ed!<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The governor is now in the process of constructing the budget for 2017-2018, and he needs to hear from Californians that adult schools must be more adequately funded. </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please write to Governor Brown and ask him to increase consortia funding to at least the 2008 level of $750 million.</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It won’t be enough, but it will be a start. </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.legislature.ca.gov/legislators_and_districts/legislators/your_legislator.html&source=gmail&ust=1480866614599000&usg=AFQjCNHk2lTZg94vyxISbnK1nC2UzI2M3A" href="http://www.legislature.ca.gov/legislators_and_districts/legislators/your_legislator.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">contact your state legislators too</span></a><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and let them know this is important to you.</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They will need to approve the governor’s budget by June.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The governor’s budget comes out in mid-January. It will be revised in May, and the legislature has to approve it in June.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Governor Jerry Brown</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">c/o State Capitol, Suite 1173</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Phone: <a href="tel:(916)%20445-2841" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" value="+19164452841">(916) 445-2841</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fax: <a href="tel:(916)%20558-3160" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" value="+19165583160">(916) 558-3160</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you for all that you’ve done and continue to do to support adult education in California. Your effort to secure adequate funding, in combination with the effort of others, has tremendous weight. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">This is how positive change happens -- </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">when we speak up together for something of value to all. </span></span><span style="color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial;"><u>Links providing more information</u>: </b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="https://saveouradultschool.wordpress.com/2016/11/26/how-californias-adult-schools-could-still-wither-away/"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>How California's Adult Schools Could Still Wither Away</b></span></a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #105cb6; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b><a href="https://saveouradultschool.wordpress.com/2016/05/22/we-need-to-serve-5-million/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #105cb6;">We Need to Serve 5 Million</a></b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #105cb6; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b><a href="http://adulteducationmatters.blogspot.com/">Adult Education Matters Blog</a></b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #105cb6; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b><a href="http://a4cas.org/">A4CAS.org</a> (Like us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AllianceForCaliforniaAdultSchools/">Facebook</a>)</b></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Here is the contact information for the Education Committee:</b></span></div>
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<a href="http://asmdc.org/members/a70" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Patrick O'Donnell (Chair)</a><span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Dem - 70 </span></span><a href="https://lcmspubcontact.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/ContactPopup.php?district=AD70" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: #aa5900; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.24px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Contact Assembly Member Patrick O'Donnell</a><h3 style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.05em; font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.025em; line-height: 1.1; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px 0px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
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P.O. Box 942849, Room 4166, Sacramento, CA 94249-0070; (916) 319-2070</div>
<a href="https://ad12.asmrc.org/" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: #aa5900; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.24px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kristin Olsen (Vice Chair)</a><span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Rep - 12</span></span><div style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.24px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a href="https://lcmspubcontact.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/ContactPopup.php?district=AD12" style="border: 0px; color: #aa5900; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.24px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Contact Assembly Member Kristin Olsen</a></div>
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P.O. Box 942849, Room 4144, Sacramento, CA 94249-0012; (916) 319-2012</div>
<a href="http://assembly.ca.gov/a65" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: #aa5900; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.24px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Young O. Kim</a><span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Rep - 65 </span></span><a href="https://lcmspubcontact.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/ContactPopup.php?district=AD65" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: #aa5900; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.24px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Contact Assembly Member Young O. Kim</a><h3 style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.05em; font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.025em; line-height: 1.1; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px 0px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
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P.O. Box 942849, Room 4177, Sacramento, CA 94249-0065; (916) 319-2065</div>
<a href="http://asmdc.org/members/a07" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: #aa5900; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.24px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kevin McCarty</a><span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Dem - 7 </span></span><a href="https://lcmspubcontact.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/ContactPopup.php?district=AD07" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: #aa5900; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.24px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Contact Assembly Member Kevin McCarty</a><h3 style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.05em; font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.025em; line-height: 1.1; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px 0px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
Capitol Office</h3>
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P.O. Box 942849, Room 2160, Sacramento, CA 94249-0007; (916) 319-2007</div>
<a href="http://asmdc.org/members/a53" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: #aa5900; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.24px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Miguel Santiago</a><span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Dem - 53 </span></span><a href="https://lcmspubcontact.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/ContactPopup.php?district=AD53" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: #aa5900; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.24px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Contact Assembly Member Miguel Santiago</a><h3 style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.05em; font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.025em; line-height: 1.1; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px 0px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
Capitol Office</h3>
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P.O. Box 942849, Room 5119, Sacramento, CA 94249-0053; (916) 319-2053</div>
<a href="http://asmdc.org/members/a15" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: #aa5900; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.24px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tony Thurmond</a><span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Dem - 15 </span></span><a href="https://lcmspubcontact.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/ContactPopup.php?district=AD15" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: #aa5900; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.24px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Contact Assembly Member Tony Thurmond</a><h3 style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.05em; font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.025em; line-height: 1.1; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px 0px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
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P.O. Box 942849, Room 5150, Sacramento, CA 94249-0015; (916) 319-2015</div>
<a href="http://asmdc.org/members/a79" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: #aa5900; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.24px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shirley N. Weber</a><span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Dem - 79 </span></span><a href="https://lcmspubcontact.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/ContactPopup.php?district=AD79" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: #aa5900; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.24px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Contact Assembly Member Shirley N. Weber</a><h3 style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.05em; font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.025em; line-height: 1.1; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px 0px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<td class="xl76" colspan="2" height="81" style="border-right: 1.0pt solid black; height: 60.75pt; width: 389pt;" width="518">AB104 Adult Education Block Grant Regional
Consortia 15-16 Allocations</td>
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<td class="xl69" height="26" style="border-top: none; height: 19.5pt;">Regional
Consortia</td>
<td class="xl70" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> Total Allocation </td>
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<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">ALLAN HANCOCK</td>
<td class="xl71" style="border-left: none;"> $ 1,061,700 </td>
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<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">ANTELOPE
VALLEY</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 1,506,388 </td>
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<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">BARSTOW</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $
750,000 </td>
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<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">BUTTE-GLENN</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $
906,520 </td>
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<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">CABRILLO</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 1,011,251 </td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">CERRITOS</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 1,707,599 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">CHABOT-LAS
POSITAS</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 2,148,821 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">CHAFFEY</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 3,265,921 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">CITRUS</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $
750,000 </td>
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<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">COAST</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 2,283,398 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">COMPTON</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 1,539,365 </td>
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<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">CONTRA COSTA</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 3,180,894 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">COPPER
MOUNTAIN</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $
750,000 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">DESERT</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 2,065,982 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">EL CAMINO</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 2,215,272 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">FEATHER RIVER</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $
750,000 </td>
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<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">FOOTHILL-DEANZA</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $
996,060 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">GAVILAN</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $
750,000 </td>
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<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">GLENDALE</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $
985,475 </td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">GROSSMONT-CUYAMACA</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 1,528,975 </td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">HARTNELL</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 1,703,899 </td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">IMPERIAL</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 1,028,678 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">KERN</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 4,492,132 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">LAKE TAHOE</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $
750,000 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">LASSEN</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $
750,000 </td>
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<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">LONG BEACH</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 2,152,527 </td>
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<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">LOS ANGELES</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 28,377,759 </td>
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<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">LOS RIOS</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 5,496,881 </td>
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<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">MARIN</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $
750,000 </td>
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<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">MENDOCINO-LAKE</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $
750,000 </td>
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<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">MERCED</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 1,432,326 </td>
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<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">MIRA COSTA</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 1,001,300 </td>
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<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">MONTEREY</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $
750,000 </td>
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<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">MT. SAN
ANTONIO</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 3,303,542 </td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">MT. SAN
JACINTO</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 2,796,294 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">NAPA VALLEY</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $
750,000 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">NORTH ORANGE</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 3,545,110 </td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">OHLONE</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $
750,000 </td>
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<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">PALO VERDE</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $
750,000 </td>
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<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">PALOMAR</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 2,502,639 </td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">PASADENA</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 1,530,994 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">PERALTA</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 2,612,493 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">RANCHO
SANTIAGO</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 3,079,153 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">REDWOODS</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $
750,000 </td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">RIO HONDO</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 2,029,191 </td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">RIVERSIDE</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 3,845,793 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">SAN
BERNARDINO</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 2,996,771 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">SAN DIEGO</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 3,652,360 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">SAN FRANCISCO</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 3,555,935 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">SAN JOAQUIN
DELTA</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 3,171,131 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">SAN
JOSE-EVERGREEN</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 3,432,027 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">SAN LUIS
OBISPO</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $
790,322 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">SAN MATEO</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 2,243,980 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">SANTA BARBARA</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $
750,000 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">SANTA CLARITA</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $
750,000 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">SANTA MONICA</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $
750,000 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">SEQUOIAS</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 1,880,340 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">SHASTA-TEHAMA-TRINITY</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $
826,330 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">SIERRA</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 1,142,567 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">SISKIYOUS</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $
750,000 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">SOLANO</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 1,269,623 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">SONOMA</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 1,589,949 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">SOUTH ORANGE</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 2,147,410 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">SOUTHWESTERN</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 1,910,648 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">STATE CENTER</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 4,839,117 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">VENTURA</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 2,941,356 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">VICTOR VALLEY</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 1,420,428 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">WEST HILLS</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $
750,000 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">WEST KERN</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $
750,000 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">WEST
VALLEY-MISSION</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 1,143,815 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">YOSEMITE</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 2,677,536 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="25" style="height: 18.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="25" style="border-top: none; height: 18.75pt;">YUBA</td>
<td class="xl72" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $ 1,284,024 </td>
</tr>
<tr height="26" style="height: 19.5pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="26" style="border-top: none; height: 19.5pt;">Counties
Outside Consortia</td>
<td class="xl73" style="border-left: none; border-top: none;"> $
750,000 <br />
_____________________________</td>
</tr>
<tr height="26" style="height: 19.5pt;">
<td class="xl65" height="26" style="height: 19.5pt;">Totals</td>
<td class="xl74" style="border-left: none;"> $ 158,000,000 <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: <a href="http://aebg.cccco.edu/For-AEBG-Grantees">http://aebg.cccco.edu/For-AEBG-Grantees</a></span></td>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996755269687066601.post-72534100111371089432015-08-22T19:22:00.003-07:002015-08-22T19:22:21.874-07:00Perspective: George Porter on Acalanes Adult School's "Older Adults Program"<h2 class="date-header" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;">
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<em style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13.1999998092651px;">George Porter, a fourteen year veteran teacher of Older Adults classes at Berkeley Adult School, two term chair of the City of Berkeley's Aging Commission, and member of CCAE (California Council of Adult Education) and CFT (California Federation of Teachers), wrote this <a href="http://adulteducationmatters.blogspot.com/search/label/Pespective" style="color: #1177cc; text-decoration: none;">perspective piece</a> in response to the news about Acalanes Adult School's survival and their Older Adult program. (<a href="http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_28643952/acalanes-adult-ed-tightens-belt-drops-some-classes" style="color: #1177cc; text-decoration: none;">You can read the news report here</a>.)</em></h3>
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<strong>A PERSPECTIVE ON ACALANES ADULT SCHOOL'S "OLDER ADULT PROGRAM":</strong></div>
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Congrats to Acalanes Older Adult Ed. for surviving, but at what cost and should they be viewed as a model?</div>
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First off, please bear in mind that Acalanes Adult Ed. is immediately adjacent to Rossmoor, a close to 10,000 strong, gated, 55+, "active senior" community. This is a highly regarded, award winning development that in years past provided an affordable option for middle-class retirees to relocate. That, though (to my understanding), has been changing rapidly. The City of Walnut Creek - where Rossmoor is located - has gentrified considerably since the development was first built and more recently well heeled baby-boomers looking for a "pied a terre" through the wanderings of early retirement have opted to settle in Rossmoor. This is raising prices to the point where the middle-class is now hard pressed to buy in. Add to this the fact that successful, upper-middle class children are looking for a "safe and comfortable place" to move their aging parents into and that the development fits that bill, it's clear the demographic of such places around California will steadily shift up the economic ladder.</div>
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That's not to say that everyone who attends Acalanes Adult Ed. is from Rossmoor but it makes little difference in this case. Close to 27% of Walnut Creek's population is over 65 and, though not all are well off by a long shot, many are and can afford to take classes with fees at the "self-supporting" level. Though estimates vary, it's reasonable to assume the municipalities average home price is pushing $800k and the median household income around $120k - quite high for a community with over 1/4 of the population 65+ and the majority of that group presumably aged out of the workforce. Walnut Creek is also very "white" with only roughly 10% of the population identifying themselves as Hispanic of African-American.</div>
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Put simply, if a self-supporting Older Adult program can make it anywhere in California, Acalanes Adult School is the place and I wish them well, just NOT as a model and even in that community I worry about those elders who have and will continue to fall through the cracks. Ms. Sownowski states in the Contra Costa Times article:</div>
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"(when) We began the very difficult task of transitioning our lifelong education classes from being state-supported to fee-based... we had a lot of resistance from students because they were used to paying very low fees. We lost students and teachers, but we're happy that now we have a sustainable program."</div>
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Her implication is that Acalanes Adult School lost students because they had the nasty expectation of paying low fees and couldn't break this. Doesn't it cross her mind that some might actually have decided they couldn't afford the higher cost? Does she have no understanding about what it means to be elderly and living on a fixed income? Does she have no idea how many seniors, though they put on a good show otherwise, are really only a major expenses or two away from having the modest, comfortable life they are trying to sustain crumble sending them spiraling downward? No idea that they aren't being cheap and stubborn, but cautious and frugal? Apparently not.</div>
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As far as the teaching staff goes, I'm sure it wasn't just those who couldn't "make the cut" into the brave new self-supporting world that were lost, but those who saw that their teaching credentials and experience were in danger of becoming meaningless, that their position in the educational system was being "de-professionalized" and that their status as public school teacher would be reduced to that of an independent contractor taking his or her cut of what the market would bear. Older Adult programs lost some of their best teachers, teachers who understandably just couldn't economically or emotionally stay the course - if the Adult Education system as a whole has suffered through a terrible cold these last few years, the Older Adult programs have had pneumonia and this was not relieved but instead exacerbated by those further up the Administrative food-chain constantly sneaking into their sick room with the suffocating pillow in hand. A disheartening time for those involved which had the secondary effect of scaring off the younger instructors needed to take their place in the field.</div>
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Again, despite all this, I wish Acalanes Adult Ed. well, but as a model...? If you want to ensure that the relatively healthy (the "active-senior") and wealthy remain that way as they age, it's very fine indeed and few of the wiser, better educated middle class and lower will benefit as well. But for the aging middle class in general that is struggling to get by now, whose numbers and tenuousness of position will increase dramatically over the years ahead and for those less well off it provides nothing. We need to do better if only for the fact that medical costs will rise proportionately to this neglect.</div>
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Again, we must do better. The question is how. Subsidization? A sliding scale? Free classes but located at sites or in communities where those not so well off tend the congregate? The list goes on, but problem is too many in the Legislature as well as the Governor simply don't want to engage the issue, have put on blinders and are walking in lock-step towards the self-supporting model. Others in the Legislature aren't even aware there is an issue. Some have been duped into believing that these classes continue to be funded as they always have - there are many statements and articles in the press that fail to mention that this support now needs to come through the school districts' general fund. An unlikely event, especially in the poorer communities where the need is often the greatest!</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The May Revision strengthens this proposal, substantially informed by feedback received </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">from stakeholders.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">• Require More Robust, but Less Frequent, Planning — Each consortium will develop a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">comprehensive plan for adult education in its region at least once every three years,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Demise of Adult Education </u></span></div>
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Failure to address the basic skills needs of the state
will have lasting negative impacts on hundreds of
thousands of Californians as well as the state’s economy
and social climate. The Governor and Legislature
should reexamine the implementation of K-12
budgetary flexibility for adult education funds, and
the resulting redirection of funds intended to support
these programs, to determine if this practice is
consistent with California’s current social and economic
needs.
As part of the 2009-10 State Budget, K-12 school
districts were given the authority to redirect categorical
program funding originally appropriated for
specified programs. As a result, roughly $634 million
in Adult Education funds were made available for
school districts to shift to support other K-12 categorical
programs that had experienced deep funding
cuts. Based on recent estimates, school districts have
exercised this option and transferred approximately
$300 million out of Adult Education programs. It
is important to note that the decision to redirect
funds is made at the district level and therefore program
implementation varies from district to district.
Statewide, the substantial reduction in support for
K-12 adult education programs has resulted in increased
demand on community colleges to provide
education to this population in addition to current
students’ needs for noncredit and credit basic skills
courses. Unfortunately, due to budget cuts, community
colleges do not have the capacity to expand
course offerings to meet this increased demand. As
a result, large numbers of adults in need of basic
skills education have gone unassisted. In addition,
the considerable local variation in programmatic decisions
by K-12 districts has resulted in a fractured
system of basic skills delivery to an already needy yet
essential segment of the California population.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Need for Legislative and Gubernatorial
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State leaders need to determine if the current flexibility
over K-12 adult education funds is consistent
with state economic and social needs and whether
these funds should be rededicated to serving basic
skills needs. <b>They should also determine whether
these programs would best be placed in the K-12
or community college system and provide funding
commensurate with the task.*</b><br />
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<i>Source:</i> <a href="http://californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu/Portals/0/StudentSuccessTaskForce/SSTF_FinalReport_Web_010312.pdf">http://californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu/Portals/0/StudentSuccessTaskForce/SSTF_FinalReport_Web_010312.pdf</a><br />
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<b><u>FROM FALL 2011:</u></b><br />
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<span style="color: #574c45; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><b style="font-style: italic;">"Resolved, That the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges recommend that the Board of Governors urge the Legislature to assign responsibility for adult education to the California community colleges but only if sufficient funding to address this mission is provided." </b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_2131580084">(</a></span></span><span style="color: #574c45; font-family: Lucida Grande, Helvetica, Arial, Nimbus Sans L, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><a href="http://www.asccc.org/resolutions/assign-responsibility-adult-education-california-community-colleges)">http://www.asccc.org/resolutions/assign-responsibility-adult-education-california-community-colleges)</a></span></span><br />
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<b><u>FROM FALL 1993:</u></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">"Community colleges should be responsible for all adult education in California. The college’s successful and cost-effective record of serving adults seeking basi</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">c skills, ESL and work place training is testament to their ability to serve such students. The State of California and its taxpayers would benefit from assigning this task exclusively to our community colleges and eliminating the duplicate services now provided by K-12." </span></i></b><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.ccleague.org/files/public/Publications/FacingMillennium.pdf">http://www.ccleague.org/files/public/Publications/FacingMillennium.pdf</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>If you are unable to attend the board meeting on May 6th, please take a moment to send an email to West Contra Costa Unified School District Board members and stand up for our friends at <a href="http://www.wccusd.net/Domain/1"><span style="color: purple;">WCCAE</span></a>. </b><a href="https://saveouradultschool.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/straw-into-gold-or-else-strange-math-and-magical-thinking-at-the-march-11-legislative-hearing-on-adult-education/"><span style="color: purple;"><b> Kristen Pursley </b></span></a><b>and many of the members of </b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/COSAS-Communities-Organized-to-Support-Adult-School/251851879453?fref=ts"><span style="color: purple;"><b>COSAS (Communities Organized to Support Adult Schools)</b></span></a><b> work at WCCAE. They have done a tremendous amount of work to secure the future of Adult Ed statewide and now they need all of us to support their efforts to save their school.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Ask them NOT to close adult ed classes.</b></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ask them NOT to lay off adult ed teachers.</b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ask them to support their adult ed teachers and provide them with the rights they deserve, as mandated by law.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Tell them that </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://adulteducationmatters.blogspot.com/2015/04/want-more-info-adult-education-adult.html">ADULT EDUCATION MATTERS</a> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>and we stand together in the struggle </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>to secure the future of K-12 Adult Ed in California.</b></span></div>
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Dear Superintendent Harter and Members of the Board of Education,</div>
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This letter has several purposes. First, to notify the District that the West Contra Costa</div>
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recognition from the District. This letter is not a demand for recognition as an exclusive</div>
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representative, but it does ask that the District acknowledge its statutory duty to confer with</div>
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ASTU as a representative of unorganized employees of the Adult Education Division (“Adult</div>
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School”).</div>
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<b>II. The Right of ASTU to Meet and Confer With the District</b></div>
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<b>and to Represent Its Members</b></div>
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The PERB has consistently affirmed the rights of non-exclusive organizations such as</div>
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ASTU to meet with the District, and to receive notice from the District, of policy actions which</div>
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may affect the wages, hours or terms and conditions of Adult School employees. Mt. Diablo</div>
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Unified School District. (1977) EERB Decision No. 44. Clovis Unified School District (1984)</div>
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PERB Decision No. 389 and Santa Monica Community College District (1977) PERB Decision</div>
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No. 103; Los Angeles Unified School District (1983) PERB Decision No. 285.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> 1</span> In 1991 I represented the Richmond Federation of Teachers, and various individuals, in</div>
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legal action which ultimately compelled the State of California to provide funds to keep the</div>
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District operating. See, e.g. Butt v. State of California, 4 Cal. 4th 668 (1992). And in 1994 I filed</div>
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suit against the District on behalf of CRTA Protect, a group of retirees who represented nearly</div>
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2,000 WCCUSD retired employees. This lawsuit, which resulted in an unpublished appellate</div>
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opinion, was eventually settled, restoring much of the lost benefits to the retirees.</div>
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West Contra Costa Unified School District</div>
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For instance, in Summerville Elementary School District (1992) PERB Dec. No. 856 16</div>
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PERC ¶ 23170, PERB again explained that a “district was obligated to meet and discuss</div>
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proposed terms and conditions of employment with [a] union as nonexclusive representative.”</div>
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Former PERB General Counsel and later ALJ William P. Smith cogently summarized the</div>
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rights of a non-exclusive union in 1988,</div>
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“ EERA guarantees a nonexclusive representative certain statutory rights e.g., the right to</div>
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represent its members, the right of reasonable access to school facilities, and the dues</div>
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deduction.5 In addition, the Board has held that, so long as no exclusive representative</div>
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exists a nonexclusive representative has the right to represent its members in grievance</div>
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procedures. See Mt. Diablo Unified School District, et al. (1977) EERB Decision No. 44.</div>
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Clovis Unified School District (1984) PERB Decision No. 389 and Santa Monica</div>
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Community College District (1977) PERB Decision No. 103.</div>
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In Los Angeles Unified School District (1983) PERB Decision No. 285, the Board did not</div>
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decide the full parameters of the nonexclusive representatives' rights but held that they</div>
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did include the right to meet and discuss subjects that are as fundamental to the</div>
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employment relationship as wages and fringe benefits.” Butte Community College</div>
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District, 12 PERC ¶ 19144, 1988 WL 1588982 (ALJ William P. Smith 1988)</div>
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Another PERB ALJ summarized a non-exclusive Union’s rights in this way:</div>
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“PERB has held, however, that in the absence of an exclusive representative, an employer</div>
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with knowledge that a non-exclusive representative represents employees affected by an</div>
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alleged unilateral change has an obligation to provide, at a minimum, notice and an</div>
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opportunity to meet and discuss with the employer subjects that are fundamental to the</div>
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employment relationship such as wages and fringe benefits, etc. (See Los Angeles</div>
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Unified School District (1983) PERB Decision No. 285 ( Los Angeles ).) Although the</div>
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full scope of the duty to consult has not been determined, it appears to require that the</div>
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employer consider the employee organization's proposals, but does not require an attempt</div>
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to reach a negotiated written agreement. (See San Dieguito Union High School District</div>
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(1977) EERB20 Decision No. 22, reversed on other grounds, and Los Angeles. )” San</div>
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ASTU’s right to represent its members is an enumerated right within section 3543.1(a) of</div>
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the Government Code.</div>
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As the above authorities explain, the District is legally obligated to meet with ASTU,</div>
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upon its request, to discuss pending complaints, described below. While this letter is not a</div>
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request to meet, ASTU recognizes that such a meeting may prove beneficial in resolving issues</div>
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West Contra Costa Unified School District identified in this letter.</div>
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<b>III. The District’s Failure to Properly Classify Adult School Employees</b></div>
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<b>and Provide Letters of Assignment</b></div>
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ASTU believes that the District has misclassified its Adult School teachers as “substitute”</div>
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teachers. In fact, as provided for in the Education Code, nearly all adult education employees are</div>
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either temporary or permanent employees, possessing the rights which accompany that status.</div>
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Substitute employees are clearly defined in Education Code section 44917 as being</div>
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employees who fill the positions of other employees, who are “absent from service.”. This</div>
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section states that,</div>
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“Except as provided in Sections 448881 and 44920, governing boards of school districts</div>
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shall classify as substitute employees those persons employed in positions requiring</div>
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certification qualifications, <i>to fill positions of regularly employed persons absent from</i></div>
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<i> service</i>.” (Emphasis added.)</div>
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Despite this mandatory requirement, the District has inaccurately classified its regular,</div>
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probationary or temporary adult school employees as “substitutes.” This inaccurate designation,</div>
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unless corrected, could serve to deprive them of benefits to which they are entitled under various</div>
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California laws, such as the Unemployment Insurance Code. Temporary adult school employees</div>
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are entitled to unemployment benefits under the case of Cervisi case, (Cervisi v. California</div>
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Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, 208 Cal. App. 3d 635 (1989))</div>
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ASTU is aware that many Adult School teachers have served many years, teaching the</div>
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same subjects in the same schools. Some have taught the same class more than 10 years. We</div>
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assume the District is aware of this situation.</div>
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Second, the Education Code assures that adult education teachers are eligible for, and</div>
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should be classified as, permanent, probationary or temporary, depending on their employment</div>
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history. First take a look at section 44925.25:</div>
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<b>§ 44929.25. Adult class teachers</b></div>
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<b>When a teacher of classes for adults serves sufficient probationary time as</b></div>
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<b>provided in Sections 44929.20 to 44929.23, inclusive, and Section 44908 to be</b></div>
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<b>eligible for election to permanent classification in that district, his or her</b></div>
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<b>tenure shall be for the service equivalent to the average number of hours per</b></div>
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<b>week that he or she has served during his or her probationary years</b>. In no</div>
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case shall the employee be classified as permanent for more than one full-time</div>
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assignment. The service for which the person has acquired tenure may be reduced</div>
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in conformity with Sections 44955 and 44956.</div>
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Notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary, in a district that has, or in a</div>
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district that is one of two or more districts governed by governing boards of</div>
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identical personnel that have a combined average daily attendance of 400,000 or</div>
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more, as shown by the annual report of the county superintendent of schools for</div>
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the preceding fiscal year, no person who is assigned 10 hours or less a week in</div>
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adult classes in the district shall be eligible for election to permanent classification</div>
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in the district on account of the assignment in adult classes.</div>
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<b>Notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary, any person who is</b></div>
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<b>employed to teach adults for not more than 60 percent of the hours per week</b></div>
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<b>considered a full-time assignment for permanent employees having</b></div>
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<b>comparable duties shall be classified as a temporary employee, and shall not</b></div>
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<b>become a probationary employee under the provisions of Section 44954.</b></div>
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From what ASTU has been able to determine, the District has been referring to adult</div>
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school teachers as “substitutes,” even though they do not substitute for anyone, and have taught</div>
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their own classes for years. The ASTU wants to be certain that regular, probationary and</div>
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temporary adult school faculty are recognized and classified in these classifications, and not</div>
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erroneously treated as “substitues.”</div>
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Next, the District has not been annually notifying adult school teachers of their</div>
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classification status, despite a mandatory legal duty to do so. In this regard, the Education Code</div>
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is also quite clear. Education Code section 44916 requires that at the time of initial employment,</div>
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and annually thereafter, the employee must receive a <b>written statement of employment</b></div>
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<b>status:</b></div>
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<b>The classification shall be made at the time of employment and thereafter in the</b></div>
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<b>month of July of each school year.</b> At the time of initial employment during each</div>
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academic year, each new certificated employee of the school district shall receive a</div>
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written statement indicating his employment status and the salary that he is to be paid. <b>If</b></div>
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<b>a school district hires a certificated person as a temporary employee, the written</b></div>
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<b>statement shall clearly indicate the temporary nature of the employment and the</b></div>
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<b>length of time for which the person is being employed. If a written statement does</b></div>
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<b>not indicate the temporary nature of the employment, the certificated employee</b></div>
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<b>shall be deemed to be a probationary employee of the school district, unless</b></div>
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<b>employed with permanent status.</b> (Section 44916, emphasis added)</div>
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It appears that this year the District did not provide a written statement of classification to</div>
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many, if not all, adult school teachers. ASTU requests that the District promptly come into</div>
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compliance with section 44916.</div>
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In prior years, ASTU understands that letters of assignment were usually explicit as to the</div>
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contingent nature of the assignment: a minimum number of students was required. Previously,</div>
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such assignment letters explained that if that minimum class enrollment could not be sustained,</div>
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the class could be closed and the District could not guarantee employment for the teacher within</div>
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that semester (nor, implicitly, at any future time.)</div>
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The District Adult Education catalogue continues to be explicit that there are class size</div>
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minimums below which a class will be cancelled.</div>
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In order for the District to comply with the law, not only must these letters be issued but</div>
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they should be clear about the various contingencies (attendance minimums, funding, program</div>
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changes) that might lead to the abrupt termination of the teacher’s services.</div>
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Finally, there is the issue of sick leave credit. In accordance with Education Code section</div>
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44978, adult education teachers are entitled to and do earn Sick Leave. Section 44978 provides as</div>
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follows:</div>
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Every certificated employee employed five days a week by a school district shall be</div>
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entitled to 10 days' leave of absence for illness or injury and additional days in addition</div>
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thereto as the governing board may allow for illness or injury, exclusive of all days he or</div>
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she is not required to render service to the district, with full pay for a school year of</div>
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service.<i> A certificated employee employed for less than five schooldays a week shall be</i></div>
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<i>entitled, for a school year of service, to that proportion of 10 days' leave of absence for</i></div>
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<i>illness or injury as the number of days he or she is employed per week bears to five and is</i></div>
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<i>entitled to additional days in addition thereto as the governing board may allow for</i></div>
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<i>illness or injury to certificated employees employed for less than five schooldays a week.</i></div>
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received had the employee served during the day. Credit for leave of absence need not be</div>
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accrued prior to taking the leave by the employee and the leave of absence may be taken</div>
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at any time during the school year. If the employee does not take the full amount of leave</div>
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allowed in any school year under this section the amount not taken shall be accumulated</div>
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from year to year with additional days as the governing board may allow.</div>
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The governing board of each school district shall adopt rules and regulations requiring</div>
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and prescribing the manner of proof of illness or injury for the purposes of this section.</div>
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The rules and regulations shall not discriminate against evidence of treatment and the</div>
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need therefor by the practice of the religion of any well-recognized church or</div>
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denomination. (Section 44978, emphasis added)</div>
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Despite this section, the District has advised many adult school teachers that they do not</div>
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earn, or have no accumulated sick leave, even though such sick leave has been accumulating for</div>
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years, as guaranteed by the Education Code. The accumulated hours of faculty should be printed</div>
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on some portion of every paycheck. The District has apparently failed to provide an on-going</div>
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and easily accessible accounting of sick leave for many many years, in violation of Education</div>
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Code section 44978.</div>
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Board policy has historically specified that an adult education teacher accumulated 1 hour</div>
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of sick leave for every 17 hours worked. Yet the Adult School Administration has informed</div>
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teachers this year that they are not entitled to Sick Leave benefits. The comment, “Subs don’t</div>
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get sick leave” has been directed at regular temporary and permanent adult education teachers.</div>
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Veteran teachers have many hours of sick leave accumulated, time which is credited to</div>
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their STRS accounts when they choose to retire. Any attempt to deprive them (or any teacher)</div>
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of previously accumulated hours is a serious violation of the law. It amounts to a form of wage</div>
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theft. Despite these oral statements by the Adult Education administration attempting to deny</div>
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eligibility for or accumulation of Sick Leave, there has been no formal notification, explanation</div>
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<b>V. Conclusion</b></div>
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Adult school teachers are concerned about the situation described above. Therefore, on</div>
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their behalf, I respectfully request that the District review these matters and inform the the</div>
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Date of Hearing: April 8, 2015<br />
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<b>ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION</b></div>
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<b> Patrick O'Donnell, Chair</b></div>
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<b> AB 1112 (Lopez) – As Amended March 26, 2015</b></div>
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<b> [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.]</b></div>
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<b>SUBJECT</b>: Adult education: consortia: parenting education: family literacy education </div>
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<b>SUMMARY</b>: 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, <b>this bill</b>: </div>
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1) Expands parenting education provided by adult education programs administered by school
districts and CCC noncredit courses to include family literacy education, which may include
support to children and schoolaged youth with limited English proficiency backgrounds in
the households of participating adults. </div>
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2) Specifies that the grant funds provided to regional consortia to create and implement adult
education plans shall include parenting education, including, but not necessarily limited to,
parent cooperative preschools and classes in child growth and development and parent-child
relations, and family literacy education, which may include support to children and
schoolaged youth with limited English proficiency backgrounds in the households of
participating adults. </div>
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<b>EXISTING LAW</b>: </div>
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1) Authorizes the establishment of adult school programs and specifies eligibility criteria,
programmatic requirements, and the manner in which school districts' adult education
revenue limit per unit of average daily attendance (ADA) shall be determined. </div>
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2) Authorizes the following classes and courses to be offered by the school districts and county
superintendent of schools for apportionment purposes from the adult education fund: </div>
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a) Adult programs in parenting, including parent cooperative preschools, and classes in
child growth and development, parent-child relationships, and parenting. </div>
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b) Adult programs in elementary and secondary basic skills and other courses and classes
required for the high school diploma. </div>
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c) Adult education programs in English as a second language. </div>
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d) Adult education programs for immigrant eligible for educational services in citizenship,
English as a second language, and workforce preparation classes in the basic skills of
speaking, listening, reading, writing, mathematics, decisionmaking and problem solving
skills, and other classes required for preparation to participate in job specific technical
training. </div>
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e) Adult education programs for adults with disabilities. </div>
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f) Adult short-term career technical education programs with high employment potential. </div>
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g) Adult programs for older adults. </div>
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h) Adult education programs for apprentices. </div>
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i) Adult programs in home economics. </div>
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j) Adult programs in health and safety education. </div>
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3) Prohibits state apportionment to be made for any course or class not specified in law. </div>
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4) Authorizes the governing board of a school district to require a fee. For a class in English
and citizenship, a fee may be charged only until July 1, 2015. Prohibits the total of the fees
required and revenues derived from the ADA from exceeding the estimated cost of all such
classes maintained. </div>
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5) Defines "adult" as a person 18 years of age or older for a person who is not concurrently
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6) Charges the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office (CCCCO) and the
California Department of Education (CDE) to jointly implement an adult education planning
process; authorizes the CCCCO and the CDE to distribute $25 million to regional consortia
to develop plans with the shared goal of better serving the educational needs of California's
adult learners; and, specifies that the following five areas are to be addressed in the plans: </div>
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a) Elementary and secondary basic skills, including classes required for a high school
diploma. </div>
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b) Classes and courses for immigrants in English as a second language, citizenship, and
workforce preparations. </div>
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c) Education programs for adults with disabilities. </div>
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d) Short-term career technical education programs with high employment potential. </div>
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e) Programs for apprentices. </div>
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<b>FISCAL EFFECT</b>: The Legislative Counsel has keyed this bill as a state-mandated local
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<b style="background-color: white;">COMMENTS</b>: <i><b>Background</b></i>. Adult education in California is part of a large, complex, and
diverse multi-provider system. It is a vital and integral part of the larger educational system that
provides adults with the skills and education that enable them to earn a high school diploma or a
general educational development (GED) certificate, become United States citizens, acquire
specific job skills, learn English, and/or become independent and productive parents and
members of their community. Adult education is provided by a number of delivery systems, but
the two main providers are school districts and the CCCs. </div>
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In 2008-09, K-12 adult education programs enrolled 1.2 million adult learners in almost 300
adult schools throughout California. The 2012-13 budget allocated $635 million for the adult
education categorical program. Adult education schools offer the following ten programs: </div>
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1) Adult Basic Education; </div>
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2) English as a Second Language; </div>
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3) High School Diploma or Adult Secondary Education, including General Education
Development certification; </div>
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4) Citizenship Preparation; </div>
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5) Career Technical Education; </div>
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6) Adults with Disabilities; </div>
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7) Health and Safety; </div>
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8) Parent Education; </div>
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9) Home Economics; and, </div>
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10) Older Adult. </div>
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Due to budget problems, from the 2008-09 through 2014-15 fiscal years, local educational
agencies (LEAs) were allowed to use approximately 40 categorical programs funds for any
educational purposes. According to the Legislative Analyst's Office, schools districts diverted
between 50 to 60% of the adult education program funds for other general fund uses. </div>
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In 2013, the Governor proposed and the Legislature passed a new K-12 funding system that
replaced revenue limits with a new base grant – the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF).
LCFF incorporated most categorical program funds into the base grant and eliminated the
categorical programs. School districts choosing to continue their adult education programs
would do so using their base funds.
AB 86 Regional Consortia. Also in 2013, the budget provided $25 million for the development
of regional consortia comprised of CCC and K-12 school districts for the purpose of creating
plans to integrate existing programs and determine how best to serve adult students within
regions throughout the state (AB 86 (Budget Committee), Chapter 48, Statutes of 2013). AB 86
specified that the plans developed by the regional consortia shall only include the provision of
the following programs: </div>
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1) Elementary and secondary basic skills (GED); </div>
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2) Classes and courses for immigrants (citizenship, English as a second language); </div>
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3) Education programs for adults with disabilities; </div>
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4) Short-term career technical education programs; and, </div>
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5) Programs for apprentices. </div>
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Excluded are four programs that are authorized to be offered through adult schools, including 1)
parenting education; 2) programs for older adults; 3) home economics; and 4) health and safety
programs. The Governor's 2015-16 budget proposes to allocate $500 million for the adult
education block grant, which will be used to fund the programs included in the AB 86 regional
consortia plans. This bill adds parenting education to the courses to be offered through the
regional consortia plans and expands parenting education to include family literacy education,
with special focus on support for adults with children and schoolaged youth with limited English
proficiency. The bill also expands parenting education programs previously offered through
adult education categorical funds and noncredit adult education courses offered by CCCs to
include family literacy education. </div>
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<b><i>What is family literacy education?</i></b> According to the author, this bill is modeled after family
literacy programs provided by federal Workforce Investment Act, Title II funding and through
the California's Community-Based English Tutoring (CBET) programs. The goal of these
programs is not only to provide English instruction to parents, but also to provide parents with
the skills that will enable them to assist their children do better in school, especially children
with limited English proficiency. For example, the CBET program, which was previously a $40
million categorical program, may teach parents how to help their children with reading, writing,
listening, speaking, study skills, homework and effective parenting technique (source: San
Bernardino Adult School). Parents must agree to read to their children, help their children with homework and talk with their children about school. A 2011 report by the CDE titled "Linking
Adults to Opportunity" stated that "two years of data analysis showed significant improvement
among the children whose parents participated in these Adult Education programs. In the
Oakland Unified School District, children of CBET parents averaged 19 percent gain on the
California English Language Development Test." </div>
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<b><i>Budget trailer bill</i></b>. In order to expand the programs funded through the regional consortia, the
budget trailer bill that will implement the $500 million for the proposal adult education block
grant will have to include parent education and family literacy. The author may wish to consider
making this request through the budget process. </div>
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<b><i>Arguments in support.</i></b> The author states, "Due to the elimination of the parent education
spending categories, parents no longer have access to family literacy education and the CBET
programs through adult education. This bill looks to reinstate parent education as an eligible
funding category as studies have shown that children whose parents participated in these
programs showed academic improvement." </div>
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<b>REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION</b>: </div>
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<b>Opposition</b> </div>
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Analysis Prepared by: Sophia Kwong Kim / ED. / (916) 319-2087</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996755269687066601.post-86260568079647423532015-02-28T17:30:00.001-08:002015-02-28T17:30:14.013-08:00COMMUNITY IS IMMUNITY<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Below is a petition in support of Adult Ed.'s broad mission written by George Porter, adult ed advocate and instructor at Berkeley Adult School. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><i><u><span style="color: red;">Here is what you can do to stand up for community education:</span></u></i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> 1) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">READ THE PETITION</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> 2) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Send an email to <a href="mailto:Alliance4CAS@gmail.com">Alliance4CAS@gmail.com</a> stating that you agree with the position.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> You can copy and paste this: </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>I agree with George Porter's petition requesting that designated funding be provided for the following adult ed programs:</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Adult Basic</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Education</span></b></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>English as a Second Language</b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Adult Secondary/GED</b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Citizenship</b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Career/Technical Education</b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Adults with Disabilities</b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Health and Safety</b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Home Economics</b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Parent Education</b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>Older Adults</b></span></span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Please include your name, city of residence (actual address if you </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">feel comfortable with that) and any personal credentials that you feel are </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">relevant. For example:</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">AT THE LEAST -</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Jane Doughtery</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">resident, Oakland CA</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">IF YOU WANT TO PUT MORE -</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Jane Doughtery</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">1234 Liberal St.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Oakland, CA</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">- 39 year Oakland resident</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">- retired city planner</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">- homeowner</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">- taxpayer</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">- member of (<i>name of organization</i>)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> 3) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Upon receipt of your email, we will add your name and information to the list of supporters.</span></span><br />
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">SUPPORT ADULT EDUCATION'S BROAD MISSION - provide designated funding </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">for all 10 programs</span></b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> We, the undersigned, are alarmed and disappointed that the Governor's</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">proposed budget fails to provide the designated funding needed to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">support the Adult Education system's broad mission and strongly feel this</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">will be detrimental to the weal of the State as a whole. Though we fully</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">appreciate the need for increased focus on basic skills and workforce</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">development, it is myopic and counterproductive to simply ignore our</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">long-lived investment in educational programs that promote effective</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">participation by adult learners in a wider variety of circumstances.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> The value of programs that help ensure an active, healthy, economically</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">savvy and civically engaged older population (Older Adult), of programs that</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">instruct parents regarding our most up to date understandings of child-</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">rearing methods and offer opportunities to practice these (Parenting),</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">of programs that provide consumer and financial education as well as</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">help develop the computer and communication skills needed to fully</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">participate in our digitalized age (Life Skills) should not be</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">underestimated. There is much more to good citizenship than simply</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">gathering the skills needed for effective workplace participation then</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">paying the taxes on the wages these garner. From the pocketbook to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">interpersonal relations to civic volunteerism to the voting booth,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the programs that the Governor's budget now ignores have historically</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">promoted the wise, personal and social decisions that are needed if</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">California is to remain strong.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> On 3/5/13 a bill was introduced (SB173) that would have narrowed the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">mission of non-credit, Adult Education to basic-skills, immigrant</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">integration and workforce development. The bill failed to make it</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">through committee until that provision was removed and it was further</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">amended in Appropriations and on the Assembly floor in ways that</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">encourage sustaining the broad goals. On 9/25/14 the Governor signed</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">off on this final version and, in good faith, at the very least the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">current level of support for all 10 programs should be indefinitely</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">maintained through designated funding. The need to shift the emphasis</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">of resources in Adult Ed. has already been accomplished during the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">flexible funding grant period. Indeed, if anything the programs now</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">missing from the proposed budget suffered too greatly during that time and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">policy guidelines should be developed that will allow these to wisely grow.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Clearly these educational programs help create strong, healthy and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">productive civically engaged citizens who, in turn, work together to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">create strong, healthy and productive civically engaged communities,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">municipalities, counties and state. The legislative intent of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Education Code Section 84830 is "to expand and improve the provision</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">of adult education". This section, too, was signed into law by the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Governor and nothing in it suggests that any of the funding for these</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">already drastically reduced programs should be cut further still. For</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">all Californian's sake see the world through two eyes not just one,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">give these programs their due, give them the designated funding they</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">deserve.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996755269687066601.post-37070547232872705002015-02-18T18:40:00.000-08:002015-02-18T18:40:02.035-08:00Celebrate Your Successful Students – Submit Your Nomination Today<div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: center;">
<i><span style="color: blue;">from t<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">he February 2015 </span></span><a href="http://www.otan.us/AdminDigest" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><b>OTAN Administrators' Digest</b></a><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span></i></div>
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Annually, OTAN honors adult education students who have made positive contributions to the community and met their goals as a result of attending an adult education program.</div>
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Two Student Succeed honorees, Grely Mazariegos and Saul Godinez, were recognized at the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) 2014 Leadership Summit in San Diego. Both students attended Tamalpais Adult School and were nominated by their teacher Jaemi Naish. Read more on page 2 of the current issue of <a href="http://www.otan.us/training/pdfs/newsltr2015/winter2015.pdf" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">OTAN Online Connection</a>, and view OTAN-created videos of these and other student success stories on the <a href="http://adultedlearners.org/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Adult Education Students Succeed Web site</a> <img alt="External link opens in new window or tab" height="11" src="http://www.otan.us/images/externallink.gif" width="12" />.</div>
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The 2015 honorees will be selected from nominations submitted before April 15, 2015. Administrators and instructors are encouraged to nominate their outstanding students by visiting the Adult Education Students Succeed site located at <a href="http://adultedlearners.org/" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.adultedlearners.org</a> <img alt="External link opens in new window or tab" height="11" src="http://www.otan.us/images/externallink.gif" width="12" />. From the Home page, select the Nomination tab, which outlines the selection criteria and displays the <a href="http://adultedlearners.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=nominationForm" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">nomination form</a> <img alt="External link opens in new window or tab" height="11" src="http://www.otan.us/images/externallink.gif" width="12" />. All nominations will be considered and winners will be judged by their achievements as a result of their participation in an adult education program. Both the students and adult school programs are recognized through this process. OTAN looks forward to honoring your successful students!</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996755269687066601.post-54750156381126001962015-01-09T12:25:00.002-08:002015-01-09T12:25:34.144-08:00Governor Brown's Proposed Budget for 2015-16<b><u>Adult Education</u></b><br />
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Historically, K‑12 school districts and community colleges have provided adult<br />
education instruction. However, there was not effective coordination in all jurisdictions<br />
and regional workforce needs were not a focus. As a result, the state has an inefficient<br />
and in some places redundant system that is not always structured to best meet the<br />
needs of adult learners. Strengthening the link between the state’s education and<br />
workforce systems is crucial to California’s growing economy.<br />
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The 2013 Budget Act provided $25 million Proposition 98 General Fund for two‑year<br />
planning grants to consortia of community college districts and school districts in<br />
70 regions. The planning builds upon the adult education infrastructure in schools and<br />
community colleges. In 2013‑14 and 2014‑15, K‑12 districts also have been required to<br />
maintain the 2012‑13 level of spending for adult education and career technical education<br />
(CTE) programs from funds received through the Local Control Funding Formula.<br />
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The Budget provides $500 million Proposition 98 General Fund for the Adult Education<br />
Block Grant, which is an integral component of the state’s workforce development<br />
strategy, as discussed in the Investing in California’s Workforce Chapter. The block<br />
grant will fund programs in elementary and secondary basic skills, classes and courses<br />
in citizenship and English as a second language for immigrants, education programs<br />
for adults with disabilities, short‑term CTE programs linked to occupations with high<br />
employment potential, and programs for apprentices. To be successful, it is imperative<br />
that these programs be well aligned with the economic needs of each region, and that<br />
they provide clear pathways to in‑demand jobs, as determined by regional labor<br />
market information. The program will promote ongoing collaboration amongst different<br />
providers and with entities that serve the populations that benefit from adult education;<br />
namely, workforce investment boards, social services departments, and correctional<br />
rehabilitation agencies.<br />
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In order for adult education programs to be well coordinated and linked with the<br />
economic needs of their region, the Administration proposes that each consortium<br />
designate an allocation board responsible for planning and allocating block grant funds.<br />
Each consortium will form an allocation committee consisting of seven members<br />
who represent community colleges, K‑12 districts, other adult education providers,<br />
local workforce investment boards, county social services departments, correctional<br />
rehabilitation programs, and one public member with relevant expertise. Each allocation<br />
committee will coordinate with regional partners to ensure various adult education<br />
funding streams are integrated, such as block grant funds, other K‑12 and community<br />
college resources, Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act allocations, and other<br />
federal funds. Each allocation committee will determine how to allocate block grant<br />
funds for direct instruction, support services, and administration of its consortium (which<br />
will be capped at 5 percent). Each consortium will report annually to the Chancellor<br />
and Superintendent on progress towards fulfilling its adult education plan using all<br />
resources available. These reports will inform distribution of block grant funds in<br />
the future.<br />
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The Chancellor of the Community Colleges and the Superintendent of Public Instruction<br />
will jointly approve allocations of funds, with an emphasis on providing funding to those<br />
regions with the greatest adult education needs. Funding allocations approved by the<br />
Chancellor and Superintendent will be distributed to providers as determined by their<br />
allocation committees. In the initial year, to ease the transition, funding will be provided<br />
directly to K‑12 school districts in the amount of the K‑12 districts’ maintenance of effort<br />
for adult education—as jointly determined by the Chancellor and the Superintendent.<br />
Further allocations will be distributed according to the local allocation committees.<br />
A final report from the two‑year planning process will be provided by March 1, 2015.<br />
This report will inform the accountability framework for delivery of adult education and<br />
remaining policy decisions, such as how fees are charged for similar programs delivered<br />
by different providers.<br />
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<b><u>Career Technical Education</u></b><br />
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High‑quality CTE programs provide students, particularly those at risk for dropping out,<br />
with valuable career and college readiness skills, and are a critical piece to the overall<br />
workforce investment strategy of the Administration, as discussed in more detail in the<br />
Investing in California’s Workforce Chapter. Prior to the adoption of the Local Control<br />
Funding Formula, the state provided more than $500 million annually to support a<br />
collection of CTE categorical programs, most notably the Regional Occupational Centers<br />
and Programs (ROCPs). The 2013 Budget Act collapsed almost all of this previous<br />
categorical funding into the Local Control Funding Formula in the form of a 9‑12 grade<br />
span adjustment, with requirements on districts in their Local Control and Accountability<br />
Plans to describe how they intend to meet the career technical education needs of their<br />
students consistent with state‑adopted standards. Additionally, the 2013 Budget Act<br />
included a two‑year maintenance‑of‑effort requirement for local educational agencies to<br />
maintain their existing levels of spending on ROCPs, providing them with additional time<br />
to structure more long‑term service delivery arrangements. Further, both the 2013 and<br />
2014 Budget Acts provided $250 million in one‑time Proposition 98 funding to support<br />
the Career Pathways Trust Program, which provides one‑time competitive grants to<br />
create innovative programs and partnerships linking rigorous academic standards to<br />
career pathways in high‑need and high‑growth sectors of the economy.<br />
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Given the complexity and relatively resource intensive nature of starting and updating CTE<br />
programs, the Budget proposes $250 million in one‑time Proposition 98 funding in each<br />
of the next three years to support a transitional CTE Incentive Grant Program. Unlike the<br />
existing Career Pathways Trust Program, school districts, county offices of education<br />
and charter schools receiving funding from this new transitional program will be required<br />
to provide a dollar‑for‑dollar match, and priority for these state funds will be given to<br />
local educational agencies applying in partnership with other local educational agencies<br />
to offer regional programs. To maintain eligibility for funding under the CTE Incentive<br />
Grant Program, recipients will need to demonstrate positive results across a spectrum<br />
of outcome measures, including high school graduation rates, CTE course completion<br />
rates, pupils obtaining industry‑recognized credentials and certificates, the number of<br />
pupils achieving gainful employment in relevant occupations, and the number of pupils<br />
progressing to postsecondary education. This program is intended to accelerate the<br />
development of new and expanded high‑quality CTE programs during the next three<br />
years and provide opportunities for program growth.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996755269687066601.post-1123054425746778432014-12-26T19:16:00.001-08:002014-12-27T12:22:41.875-08:00December Links<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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Funding ends for California Adult Schools, 6/30/2015</u></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="color: red;">What can you do? </span></b>Contact Governor Brown via email <span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 11.039999961853px;">(</span><a href="https://govnews.ca.gov/gov39mail/mail.php" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; line-height: 11.039999961853px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://govnews.ca.gov/gov39mail/mail.php</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 11.039999961853px;">) or call and leave him a message at 916-445-2841. </span> Let him know that you support direct funding to school districts for adult schools. Contact your legislators, as well. <a href="http://www.legislature.ca.gov/legislators_and_districts/legislators/your_legislator.html">Click here</a> for contact information.</i></span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://californiaadultschools.org/cas/">californiaadultschools.org </a></span></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://adulteducationmatters.blogspot.com/2014/12/all-out-for-berkeley-adult-school.html"><span style="color: blue;">All Out for Berkeley Adult School</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span>(Adult Education Matters blog)</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://a4cas.blogspot.com/2014/12/why-californias-adult-schools-need.html"><span style="color: blue;">Why California’s Adult Schools Need Dedicated Funding</span> </a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-weight: normal;">by </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/COSAS-Communities-Organized-to-Support-Adult-School/251851879453?fref=ts" style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal;">Communities Organized to Support Adult School (COSAS)</a></span></li>
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">From the Save Your Adult School Blog:</span></i></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(117, 171, 234); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 27px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://saveouradultschool.wordpress.com/2014/11/30/community-colleges-and-adult-schools-how-they-work-and-who-does-what-part-1-the-community-colleges-credit-and-noncredit-programs/" rel="bookmark" sl-processed="1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(117, 171, 234); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Georgia, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; text-decoration: none;" title="Community Colleges and Adult Schools: How They Work and Who Does What, Part 1: The Community Colleges, Credit and Noncredit Programs">Community Colleges and Adult Schools: How They Work and Who Does What</a>, </span></span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://saveouradultschool.wordpress.com/2014/11/30/community-colleges-and-adult-schools-how-they-work-and-who-does-what-part-1-the-community-colleges-credit-and-noncredit-programs/" rel="bookmark" sl-processed="1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(117, 171, 234); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-decoration: none;" title="Community Colleges and Adult Schools: How They Work and Who Does What, Part 1: The Community Colleges, Credit and Noncredit Programs">Part 1: The Community Colleges, Credit and Noncredit Programs</a></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 27px;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(117, 171, 234); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 27px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://saveouradultschool.wordpress.com/2014/12/05/community-colleges-and-adult-schools-how-they-work-and-who-does-what-part-2-adult-schools-community-interest-and-mandated-programs/" rel="bookmark" sl-processed="1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(117, 171, 234); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Georgia, sans-serif; line-height: 27px; text-decoration: none;" title="Community Colleges and Adult Schools, How They Work and Who Does What, Part 2: Adult Schools: Community Interest and Mandated Programs">Community Colleges and Adult Schools, How They Work and Who Does What</a>, </span></span><a href="http://saveouradultschool.wordpress.com/2014/12/05/community-colleges-and-adult-schools-how-they-work-and-who-does-what-part-2-adult-schools-community-interest-and-mandated-programs/" rel="bookmark" sl-processed="1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(117, 171, 234); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-decoration: none;" title="Community Colleges and Adult Schools, How They Work and Who Does What, Part 2: Adult Schools: Community Interest and Mandated Programs">Part 2: Adult Schools: Community Interest and Mandated Programs</a><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; line-height: 27px;">\</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(117, 171, 234); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #105cb6; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://saveouradultschool.wordpress.com/2014/12/27/community-colleges-and-adult-schools-how-they-work-and-who-does-what-part-3-whos-doing-what/">Community Colleges and Adult Schools, How They Work and Who Does What, </a></span><a href="http://saveouradultschool.wordpress.com/2014/12/27/community-colleges-and-adult-schools-how-they-work-and-who-does-what-part-3-whos-doing-what/">Part 3: Who’s Doing What</a></span></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">EdSource commentary: </span><a href="http://edsource.org/2014/adult-schools-need-dedicated-funding/70129#.VJ4c3sDdB" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Adult schools need dedicated funding</a></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://ccaestate.org/legislativenews.html#thecountdownbegins">CCAE Legislative Update</a></span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996755269687066601.post-64828663351630582052014-12-20T23:14:00.001-08:002014-12-20T23:14:34.318-08:00Why California’s Adult Schools Need Dedicated Funding By Communities Organized to Support Adult School (COSAS)<br />
K-12 Adult Schools Need Dedicated Funding. The governor has proposed that all funding for K-12 adult schools come through the Community College Chancellor’s Office by way of the Regional Consortia. However, adult schools need dedicated funding to assure the maintenance of their particular strengths. The state can better assure access to adult education services for all Californians and the continuing support of adult schools for the mission of the K-12 schools by providing dedicated funding for adult schools.<br />
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1. According to the state Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) adult schools work well for their students. In 2012, the LAO conducted an extensive study of the state’s community college and adult school system and released its findings in a report entitled “Restructuring California’s Adult Education System”. On page 15, the report notes that outcomes for adult schools are comparable to outcomes for community college non-credit programs.<br />
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2. Adult schools support the mission of K-12 Schools. Adult school Parent Education, Family Literacy and Credit Recovery programs support the mission of K-12, but not the mission of community colleges. Adult education classes in schools increase parent involvement in the schools, and make schools into community centers. Adult schools need to receive dedicated funding through the K-12 schools so they continue their close association with and support for K-12 schools.<br />
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3. Because they are part of K-12 districts, adult schools can provide accessible, community based classes that serve their students best by holding classes at K-12 sites. Because many adult school students are low-income and have limited access to transportation, classes at the neighborhood school work well for them. If all money for adult schools comes through the community colleges, there is a risk that adult schools will become alienated from their K-12 districts; they could even be seen as an incursion into the affairs of the K-12 district by the community college. This could make it more difficult for adult schools to hold classes at K-12 district facilities, thus reducing access for many students. Adult schools need dedicated funding to assure continued use of K-12 district facilities.<br />
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4. The teaching of basic literacy, the primary function of adult schools, is more in line with the mission of K-12 schools than the mission of community colleges, which is to provide college-level instruction. Adult Basic Education is the equivalent of an elementary education, and adult school High School Diploma programs are equivalent to a secondary education. Most adult school ESL students read English at below the 8th grade level. Community colleges are institutions of higher learning. They provide some remediation for their students, but that is not their core mission. Adult schools need dedicated funding so that they can continue prioritizing basic literacy education, thus fulfilling the state’s commitment to a basic education for all Californians.<br />
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5. The ratio of adult schools to community colleges is almost 3:1; adult schools need dedicated funding to assure that adults will have adequate access to education. There are about 300 adult schools in California and about 112 community colleges. Community colleges are concentrated in urban centers; rural and remote areas. If all funding for adult education comes through community colleges, there is no guarantee that community colleges will maintain adult school services in a crisis rather than saving their own programs. This could lead to further closures of adult schools during the next fiscal crisis, resulting in severely reduced access to educational services for adults in the state. <br />
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For a more in-depth treatment of this subject, see http://saveouradultschool.wordpress.com<br />
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Posted on <span class="postdate" style="color: #a12a2a;">November 30, 2014</span> by kpursley - <a href="http://www.saveouradultschool.wordpress.com/">www.saveouradultschool.wordpress.com</a></div>
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The AB86 Regional Consortium planning process has been something of a crash course for adult schools and community colleges alike. The subject matter we have to master is each other, and the final exam will come in the 2015-2016 school year, when the plans will actually begin to be implemented.</div>
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The consortium planning process holds great promise for better collaboration between the adult school and community college systems and improved educational opportunities for California’s adults. However, for the process to really work well, K-12 adult schools need their own dedicated funding. The original proposal for the consortia did not include dedicated funding for adult schools; all funds for the consortia were to come through the community colleges. The original funding proposal was meant to simplify the budgets of K-12 schools by eliminating most categorical programs, including adult schools. However, without dedicated funding for adult schools, the state is at risk of losing their considerable strengths, which include accessibility and support for the mission of the K-12 schools. Governor Brown has the opportunity to assure that adult schools continue to provide their crucial services to the state by including dedicated funding for them in his January budget.</div>
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The community colleges and adult schools are both very important components of the California’s education system, and both need to be preserved. Community colleges, fortunately, already have dedicated funding. In order to understand why dedicated funding for adult schools is important, it helps to understand how the adult school and community college systems operate, and how they currently divide the work of educating California’s adults.</div>
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Adult schools and community colleges are both composed of two types of programs. Community colleges may be composed of both credit and noncredit programs, though not all community colleges have noncredit programs and only a few have extensive noncredit programs. And adult schools may have both mandated and community interest programs. This post will examine the two community college programs.</div>
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<strong>THE COMMUNITY COLLEGES: CREDIT AND NONCREDIT PROGRAMS</strong></div>
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<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Community College Credit Programs: This Is College!</span> </strong>To understand community college credit programs, just think college: a semester or quarter system where students can only start the program at two or three specific times during the year, courses that last a quarter or semester, grades, credits, and a degree at the end. For a community college, the degree is usually a two-year AA degree that will allow the graduate to transfer to a four-year college as a junior to complete the BA degree, though plans are in the works to allow some community colleges to offer four-year degrees on a limited basis. The familiar administrative structure of college is there as well: community colleges have presidents, deans, department chairs, and so on. Community colleges will often have a campus with an administrative building, buildings dedicated to the various departments, a library, bookstore, and sports facilities similar to the campuses of other types of colleges and universities.</div>
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<strong>Some Differences between Community College Credit Programs and Four Year Institutions</strong></div>
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<strong>Admissions-Everybody Welcome!: </strong>Unlike the UC System and the state universities, community colleges do not have a competitive admissions process. Community colleges are open to all; it is not even necessary to earn a high school diploma in order to attend a community college. It is probably because of this feature of the community colleges, their universal accessibility, that the state considers them “adult education” rather than strictly institutions of higher learning.</div>
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<strong>Student Fees—Per Credit Charge: </strong>Community colleges don’t charge tuition in the manner of universities and four year colleges. Instead, students pay for classes at a certain amount per unit. This means classes can cost different amounts based on how many units the student will earn upon successfully completing the class. Like four year institutions, community colleges charge out-of-state students (defined as students who have lived in California less than one year) more than California residents. In the community colleges, out-of-state students pay more per unit than residents, rather than paying out-of- state tuition. At least some community colleges use <em>legal </em>residency in California as the standard for state residency, which means undocumented immigrants who have lived and paid taxes in California for decades must pay the much higher out-of-state rate, making community college credit classes too expensive for many in this population. Like four-year institutions, community colleges have financial aid, but this may not be available for undocumented students. Community colleges also have fee waivers for low income students, though, again, these waivers may not be available for undocumented students.</div>
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<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Community College Noncredit – A Different Model:</span> </strong>Community college noncredit and K-12 adult school programs actually share a model that is very different from community college credit programs. The model is very clearly delineated in a presentation entitled “ENDING California’s Public Adult Education Through Policy: Will You Let It Happen?” which was prepared for a California Federation of Teachers Convention Adult Education Workshop in 2012. As the title indicates, the model is at risk in both the K-12 and community college systems. Since the presentation does such a good job of describing the model, I will simply quote it here. The whole presentation can be viewed here: <strong><a href="http://toped.svefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/EndingCApublicAdult_EdThruPolicy-no-blank-pages-1.pdf" style="color: #105cb6;">http://toped.svefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/EndingCApublicAdult_EdThruPolicy-no-blank-pages-1.pdf</a></strong></div>
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<strong> </strong>Here is the description of the noncredit/adult school model:</div>
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<li><strong> </strong><em>Students may begin and end their enrollment at any time.</em></li>
<li><em>Credit is not awarded and there are no grades.</em></li>
<li><em>The focus is on learning, not the achievement of credentials.</em></li>
<li><em>Adults of all ages and abilities are welcome.</em></li>
<li><em>Primarily low income adults are served in classes near their homes.</em></li>
<li><em>Many students get to class on foot or by public transportation</em></li>
<li><em>Instruction incorporates review to support open entry and adult learning styles; expectations of homework are generally limited.</em></li>
<li><em>Classes are free or students may pay a token fee* or books/materials cost.</em></li>
<li><em>Classes may be repeated until mastery is achieved.</em><strong><em> </em></strong></li>
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-“ENDING California’s Public Adult Education Through Policy: Will You Let It Happen?” CFT Convention Adult Education Workshop, 4/13/2012, page 2.</div>
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In regards to the footnote, it is true that in 2012 K12 adult schools were allowed to charge fees due to the categorical flexibility that so devastated adult schools beginning in 2008. However, before 2008, adult schools were also required to offer certain classes free, including English as a Second Language, High School Diploma, Adult Basic Education and classes for Adults with Disabilities. Even now, some adult schools do not charge a fee for these classes.</div>
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The “Ending California’s Public Adult Education…” presentation is well worth reading, as it explains why the noncredit/adult school model is under attack. While the model welcomes all students, it is particularly helpful for adults who are not only busy, but dealing with the stresses of poverty. In this type of class, students who had little formal schooling as children or never did well in the traditional school system find a home and begin to fulfill their potential. But with no grades, no credentials or degrees, no hard beginning and end date, it doesn’t look much like what we typically think of as “school.” It’s that “focus on learning” that throws people. Learning? What about grades and tests?</div>
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But anyone who has taught this type of class can tell you it works, and furthermore, there are standardized test results and other data that demonstrate its effectiveness. There is more than one way to educate people, and not everyone benefits from the formal school model.</div>
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<strong>Noncredit Community College Programs Represent Only 14% of All Adult Education in California</strong></div>
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<strong> </strong>While the noncredit model has significant strengths, it is not in extensive use in California in the community colleges. A report on the community college and adult school systems by the California Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) found that community college noncredit programs make up just 14% of the adult education provided in California (LAO report, “Restructuring California’s Adult Education System”, issued in December 2012, p.11 <a href="http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2012/edu/adult-education/restructuring-adult-education-120412.pdf" style="color: #105cb6;">http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2012/edu/adult-education/restructuring-adult-education-120412.pdf</a>)</div>
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The noncredit model is extensively used in adult schools, however.</div>
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<strong>Large Noncredit Community College Programs Are Concentrated in a Few Areas; Ten Districts Provide 85% of Noncredit Instruction</strong></div>
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As the LAO report explains, most of the noncredit community college instruction in California is provided by a few large programs:</div>
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<em>“… only a handful of (community) colleges offer a robust selection of noncredit adult education. The largest CC noncredit providers are the Rancho Santiago (Orange County), San Francisco, San Diego, North Orange, Mount San Antonio (Los Angeles County) and Los Angeles districts. Together, these six districts accounted for two-thirds of noncredit FTE students in 2011-2012, with the top ten largest district providers accounting for about 85 percent of CCC noncredit instruction.” </em>–“ Restructuring California’s Adult Education System”, pages 11-12.</div>
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So six community colleges account for all of the large noncredit programs, and most of them are in Southern California.</div>
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<strong>Because Not All Community Colleges Have Noncredit Programs, There Are Consortia Where No Noncredit Community Colleges Programs Exist</strong><strong> </strong></div>
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The San Francisco East Bay, by no means a remote backwater, is an example of an area with very few noncredit programs. Neither the Peralta Colleges in the Oakland/Berkeley area nor the Contra Costa College system have noncredit programs, so the consortium planning for those systems is taking place between adult schools and community college credit programs.</div>
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In areas with large noncredit programs, the consortium planning may be taking place mainly between the noncredit program and the adult school, but this is certainly not the case in all areas of the state.<strong> </strong></div>
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<strong>In Some Areas of the State with Large Noncredit Programs, Community College Noncredit Programs Have Replaced Adult Schools, But this Is Rare</strong><strong> </strong></div>
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In a few communities, like San Francisco and San Diego, all adult education is delivered through large community college noncredit programs, and there is no separate adult school. This model seems to work well in the communities where it has been established, but it is by no means the dominant model in California, as large community college noncredit programs are, in fact, rare. Nor is there any evidence that these programs work better for their students than adult school programs. The LAO report noted, on page 15, that outcomes for adult schools are comparable to those of community college noncredit programs.</div>
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<strong>Adult School Community Interest Classes – Welcome to the World: </strong>If you are fortunate enough to live in an area that still has an adult school, you probably receive an adult school catalog in the mail. If you perused the cooking, exercise, computer or craft classes looking for something that caught your eye, you were looking at the community interest classes. You probably checked the prices on these classes to see if you could afford them, and found the prices to be quite reasonable for the value. The modest fee you paid, if you took the class, helped pay for the cost of running the class; the fees you and the other students in the class paid covered the cost.</div>
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The class you took had some of the features of the community college noncredit courses described in part 1 of this series: There were no grades, no credits, and the focus was on learning. You could repeat the course if needed, and the class accommodated students of different levels of skill. However, your community interest class differed from a community college non-credit class because it did have a definite beginning and end, and you paid for it.</div>
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Community interest classes are in a certain sense the public face of adult schools, the feature most people know about. Because adult school catalogs are usually designed to attract people to the community interest classes, these classes are prominently featured, and because the fees are so reasonable, many people have taken a community interest adult school class at one time. This can cause a public relations problem for adult schools, to some extent. The strong association between the community interest classes and adult schools in the public mind, coupled with the understanding that adult schools are tax supported, can lead to confusion; adult schools get the undeserved reputation of offering frivolous recreational classes on the taxpayers’ dime.</div>
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This perception is completely false. The community interest classes are supported by fees. The mandated classes, which serve vulnerable Californians and mostly provide basic literacy instruction, are supported by taxes.</div>
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So community interest classes are all recreational, right? It’s good that the taxpayers aren’t paying for them, but they are still fluff?</div>
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Not really. Almost all the vocational education classes in adult schools are community interest classes. First aid and CPR classes that are needed to qualify for certain jobs are community interest. The class that leads to a food safety certificate for restaurant employees is a community interest class. The class that prepares students to pass the Certified Nursing Assistant class—that’s community interest too.</div>
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And there are some community interest classes that are not workforce related, but are pretty serious. Trainings on how to respond to a major disaster in your community are offered as community interest classes, for example.</div>
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The fact is, community interest classes have a marvelous serendipity to them. In a sense, the whole world is there to study for a reasonable fee, in both its fun and serious aspects.</div>
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Community interest classes are mostly left out of the consortium planning discussion. It is more or less assumed that they will continue to roll along as long as the adult school continues. That is true, but it is also true that when the mandated classes are severely defunded, the adult school, including the community interest classes, disappears. This happened in Oakland, which has a few scraps of its mandated programs left, but no more community interest classes.</div>
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And while the consortia are mainly understood to be working on pathways from the adult school to the community college, it would make just as much sense to create pathways from some adult school programs, like ESL or High School Diploma, to other community interest adult school programs with a job training focus, such as Certified Nursing Assistant.</div>
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<strong>Adult School Mandated Programs—State Funded Services for Vulnerable Californians:</strong></div>
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<strong> </strong>Mandated adult school programs are programs that, by law, are eligible for state funding. The programs are enumerated in California Education Code Section 41975, which can be viewed in full here:</div>
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<a href="http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=edc&group=41001-42000&file=41975-41976.5" style="color: #105cb6;">http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=edc&group=41001-42000&file=41975-41976.5</a></div>
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Section 41975 enumerates ten programs: parenting, elementary and secondary basic skills , English as a Second Language, classes for immigrants in Citizenship, English, and workforce skills, programs for adults with disabilities, career technical education, programs for older adults, programs for apprentices, home economics, and health and safety education.</div>
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<strong> </strong>The mandated programs are intended to provide services for vulnerable adults. Adults with low literacy and/or low income, immigrants who speak little or no English, adults with disabilities, and older adults are all populations that face significant challenges when it comes to accessing educational services. In addition to the more obvious economic and transportation barriers they face, they often feel uncomfortable in traditional school settings. Both native born and immigrant adults with low literacy levels may have bad memories of former school experiences, or have so little experience with formal education that a traditional classroom feels unfamiliar and overwhelming. The same may be true for adults with disabilities, while older adults may not feel comfortable in educational environments designed for younger learners. It is these populations that the noncredit model, which is used by community college noncredit programs and adult schools alike, is designed to serve.</div>
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Most adult school mandated programs follow the noncredit model closely, with an open entry/open exit registration system to make classes more accessible, a focus on learning and skills development rather than grades or credit, locations embedded in the community to make attending school easier for students with limited access to transportation, incorporation of review both to accommodate new students and assure mastery of the material, and a commitment to serving students of different ages and abilities. The emphasis in adult school mandated classes is on breaking down barriers to learning. Classrooms are informal and welcoming, and a strong sense of community typically develops among the students.</div>
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In order to open the doors of education for low income students, adult school mandated classes, like community college noncredit classes, used to be offered free by law. In 2008, due to the budget crisis of that year, many of the laws governing adult schools were suspended in order to remove protections on adult school funding so that school districts, hard hit by budget cuts, could use adult school money to meet other budget obligations. Predictably, districts cut back adult school budgets severely in order to use the money for other programs, and some closed their adult schools altogether. Embattled by crippling budget cuts and faced with possible closure, some adult schools took advantage of the grey area created by the suspension of the laws and began charging for mandated classes. Even now, however, not all adult schools charge for mandated classes.</div>
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<strong> </strong>In a certain sense, the AB 86 Regional Consortia are about the fate of the adult school mandated programs. Community colleges already have guaranteed funding for both their credit and non-credit programs; their funding structure has not been eliminated or radically changed, and they are not at risk. If mandated adult school programs can be saved, community interest adult school classes will continue to thrive.</div>
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But mandated adult school programs face an uncertain future. The protections on their funding that were removed in 2008 were never restored, even when the state’s economy began to rebound.</div>
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In 2013, the adult schools that managed to survive got some relief from relentless yearly budget cuts when the legislature included a Maintenance of Effort (MOE) provision in that year’s budget. The MOE required districts that still had adult schools to continue to spend the same amount on their adult schools in the 2013-23014 and 2014-2015 school years as they had spent in 2012-2013 school years. Obviously this hiatus is coming rapidly to a close. Beginning in July 2015, the plan is for adult schools to be funded through the regional consortia, with the funding to be determined by the individual consortium plans. The amount of funding and delivery system are yet to be determined; it is expected that the governor’s budget, due to come out in January, will provide more detail about funding. Those who work in adult schools are understandably on edge about what will happen between now and July 2015. School districts have to plan their budgets far in advance, and when adult school staff return from the winter break in January, they could be three months away from March 15 pink slips depending on what is in the budget and how their districts interpret it.</div>
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Ed. Code Section 41975, which enumerates the adult school programs that are eligible for state funding, is still on the books. However, like many other laws governing adult schools, it is still suspended. AB 86 provides that six of the ten programs enumerated in Section 41975 can be eligible for consortium planning: elementary and secondary basic skills, English as a Second Language, classes for immigrants in Citizenship, English, and workforce skills, programs for adults with disabilities, career technical education, and programs for apprentices. Parenting programs, programs for older adults, home economics and health and safety education are left out. SB 173, which recently passed into law, would originally have amended Section 41975 to eliminate them, but by the time SB 173 passed, the amendment to Section 41975 had been removed. However, since all money for adult school mandated programs will come through the consortia after 2015, the four programs excluded by AB 86 are likely to lose their funding next year unless something is done to save them.</div>
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It is among the mandated programs that we find the educational services that most directly support the K-12 schools, and where adult schools managed to survive, it was usually because their districts recognized their value in this regard. Schools recognized that classes in parenting and English as a Second Language gave parents skills they need to support their children’s school success.</div>
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However, adult schools complement the K-12 schools in another way because they assure that adults who did not get the chance to complete their education as children have the chance to acquire the skills they would have learned in the K-12 schools. Elementary and secondary basic skills programs provide the equivalent of an elementary and high school education for adults, and English as a Second Language classes also provide basic literacy skills in English for immigrants. Through adult schools, the state fulfills its commitment to a basic education for all Californians, a commitment which, for a variety of reasons, cannot always be met by the K-12 schools.</div>
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The acquisition of basic skills by adult learners also supports the success of children in the district, because many of the adults who complete basic skills programs are also parents. Parents who complete their elementary or secondary educations in adult school serve as models for their children and also pick up skills that allow them to help their children in school.</div>
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The only extant plan for continued funding for adult school mandated programs after July 2015 is a sketchy proposal by Governor Brown to fund them through the consortia, with all money for the consortia coming through the Community College Chancellor’s Office. This model raises many as yet unanswered questions about what the relationship of adult schools to their K-12 districts would be under this model. Adult school teachers who go to work every day on K-12 campuses or in buildings owned by the K-12 district (as all adult school buildings are) wonder if they will be reporting to work at the same location after 2015. They wonder who will sign their paychecks: will it still be the superintendent for their school district, or will the check be signed by someone at the community college? Will they be considered school district or community college employees?</div>
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Such questions are mostly unspoken, as teachers are encouraged not to think about them and just trust the AB 86 process. But questions that mirror those of teachers must be occurring to school districts as well. What will the relationship of the adult school to the school district be? How much control will the district have over the adult school? Who will be in charge of resolving conflicts that might arise? Unless these questions are addressed, there is a danger that the relationship between adult schools and their districts, already made shaky by categorical flexibility and its aftermath, might be further damaged. Policymakers who will be shaping the future of adult schools during the first half of 2015 need to look carefully at ways to make sure adult schools can continue their crucial role of complementing and supporting K-12 schools. Dedicated funding for adult schools that comes through school district budgets would be a key component of any plan to preserve adult school support for the K-12 mission.</div>
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<strong>The Need for Adult Literacy Services in California</strong></div>
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In California Education Code Section 84757, the same 10 programs enumerated in Section 41975 as eligible for adult school funding are enumerated as eligible for noncredit community college funding. The language of the two code sections is exactly the same; it can be viewed here:</div>
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The fact that California Education Code establishes these programs as eligible for state funding for both adult schools and community colleges indicates that they were, at least at one time, significant state priorities. It is likely that the legislature intended local agencies to have some flexibility in deciding whether adult schools, community colleges, or both, should provide the designated services.</div>
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The following statistics are found on page 16 of a report prepared for the California Department of Education by WestEd in 2009 entitled “Adult Education in California: Strategic Planning Process Needs Assessment”:</div>
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<li> <strong>In 2009 about 5.3 million adult Californians lacked a high school diploma or General Education Development (GED) certificate.</strong></li>
<li><strong>About half of those 5.3 million adults, over 2.5 million, had educational attainments at below the 9<sup>th</sup> grade level.</strong></li>
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<strong> </strong>The 2012 LAO Report noted, on page 10:</div>
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<li> <strong>In 2009 adult schools and community colleges together served about 1.5 million students.</strong></li>
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<strong> </strong>The population of the state has grown significantly since 2009, so the number of adults needing literacy services has almost certainly grown proportionally<strong>.</strong></div>
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Adult schools have shrunk since 2009; adult school programs were cut continually, and decreased in size yearly, from 2008 to 2013, when the Maintenance of Effort mandate temporarily stabilized their funding.</div>
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Community colleges, and noncredit programs in particular, have not grown significantly since 2009; they are just beginning to recover from the effects of the great recession.</div>
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Adults with low levels of literacy are exactly the students both adult school mandated programs and community college noncredit programs were designed to serve. With more than five million people in need of these services, the efforts of both adult school mandated programs and community college noncredit programs are sorely needed, and both must be significantly expanded, if the educational needs of California’s adults are to be adequately met.</div>
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In the next installment of this series, we will look at how community colleges and adult schools currently divide the work of educating the state’s adults.</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With the intense focus on year-over-year budget shortfalls for California education, the very real economic benefits derived from the state’s public investment in K-12 based Adult Education and workforce development programs have been overlooked and decimated. Numerous studies have shown that even, in difficult economic times, a preemptive focus on Adult Education actually saves governments money by reducing healthcare, public assistance and incarceration costs. It also improves and expands the nation’s available pool of human capital by helping motivated but under educated people achieve gainful employment in today’s increasingly high-tech and global job market. K-12 based Adult Education and Career Technical training are one of the most cost-effective tools in the state, with infrastructure and capacity currently in place to meet the need.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While we support the effort for systems serving adults to coordinate and collaborate regionally, we are highly concerned about elimination of access for those most in need. The bottom line is that K-12 based Adult Education is too important to allow it to be eliminated. While we can appreciate the difficulties school districts have faced in recent years and the interest in a more coordinated adult education system, the success of K-12 students depends on the success and engagement of their parents and community. In many districts, K-12 students’ parents are the ones relying on the K-12 Adult Education programs the most.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996755269687066601.post-76300893572418697122014-10-31T18:22:00.000-07:002014-11-01T06:57:54.725-07:00October Newsletter from Adult Education Advocates in the Montebello CommunityC A L I F O R N I A<br />
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A Newsletter on Adult Education in California</div>
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October 2014</div>
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<b>SB 173 ADDS TO THE MIX ON CONSORTIA PLANNING</b><br />
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With significant amendments, Senator Carol Liu’s SB 173 passed the legislature and was approved by Governor Brown. As amended, its provisions add to the factors applicable to the present AB 86 work, calling for the following:<br />
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• Requires the California Department of Education (CDE) and the state Chancellor’s Office (CO)<br />
to issue assessment and policy guidelines to be used for purposes of student placement in adult<br />
education.<br />
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• Requires CDE and CO to issue policy recommendations to the legislature regarding a comprehensive accountability system for adult education.<br />
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• Requires CDE and CO to issue recommendations on adult education fees.<br />
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• Requires the CO, in conjunction with CDE, to annually report on courses and student<br />
enrollments in adult education, and report on deficits in course offerings based on needs<br />
identified by adult education consortia.<br />
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• Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing and the Academic Senate for California<br />
Community Colleges to submit recommendations by July 1, 2016 on the reciprocity of adult<br />
education instructors in K-12 districts and community colleges.<br />
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The good news is that with the enactment of SB 173, the legislature and Governor are affirming that the work of the adult education consortia is being taken seriously. SB 173 further affirms that a new adult education program will begin on July 1, 2015, and the continued work of the consortia will be needed to implement the AB 86 consortia plans. The added factor of the SB 173 accountability also will serve to inform state decision makers on the effectiveness of adult education!programs.<br />
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What to Do . . .<br />
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MULTIPLE APPROACHES NEEDED TO INFORM LEGISLATORS<br />
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As 2015 approaches and the state legislature and governor begin their work, it becomes critical that all state legislators are aware of what is at stake for adult education and that they get information on your programs and your AB 86 consortium work. One approach to informing legislators will not be enough.<br />
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Versions of the following are needed: Visits to local offices; Invitations for legislators to see your<br />
programs and participate in your events; and Letters from staffs and students.<br />
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The current reality in the state legislature is that an increasing percentage of members comes from families that are much like those of students in adult education. The new President Pro Tem of the State Senate, Kevin de Leon, in his inaugural speech, praised his mother for overcoming significant barriers in raising her family. The support is there in the legislature, but members need the information to become fellow advocates for adult education.<br />
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Developed by Adult Education Advocates in the Montebello CommunityUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996755269687066601.post-5738285904073171822014-10-26T14:14:00.001-07:002014-10-27T16:18:34.256-07:00The History of AB 86<span style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e61; font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.6666669845581px; line-height: 19.1999988555908px;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e61; font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.1999988555908px;">Assembly Bill 86 was introduced on January 10, 2013 (</span><span style="color: #5e5e61; font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.1999988555908px;"><a href="http://openstates.org/ca/bills/20132014/AB86/">http://openstates.org/ca/bills/20132014/AB86/</a>)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #5e5e61; font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.1999988555908px;">The same day that Governor Brown announced his plan to shift adult education to the community college system:</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #5e5e61; font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.1999988555908px;"><a href="http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2013-14/pdf/BudgetSummary/FullBudgetSummary.pdf">http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2013-14/pdf/BudgetSummary/FullBudgetSummary.pdf</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e61; line-height: 19.1999988555908px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The governor’s budget proposal in January 2013 suggested housing all adult education in the community colleges. This met resistance from the adult education community, leading the governor, in his May Revision, to propose a <b>new “regional consortia” system</b> patterned on the LAO recommendation and now embodied in two pieces of legislation passed in July."</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1999988555908px;"><span style="color: #5e5e61; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cft.org/contact-us/198-article/699-adult-education-new-regional-consortia-meld-state-programs.html">http://www.cft.org/contact-us/198-article/699-adult-education-new-regional-consortia-meld-state-programs.html</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #636363;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Public outcry was huge in 2012 when Gov. Jerry Brown proposed shifting all adult education programs to community colleges within two years.<b> Protest from faculty prompted the governor to relent. In a compromise move, he endorsed AB 86</b>."</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cta.org/Professional-Development/Publications/2014/03/March-2014-Educator/AdultSchool.aspx">http://www.cta.org/Professional-Development/Publications/2014/03/March-2014-Educator/AdultSchool.aspx </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">"Brown relented as part of a </span><a class="external" href="http://www.edsource.org/2013/adult-ed-regional-occupational-center-advocates-satisfied-with-budget-deal-at-least-for-now/33543#.Uei_klNvOpI" style="background-color: white; color: #655269; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">budget compromise</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">, deciding instead that districts must keep their adult education programs afloat for the next two years while working with their local community colleges on a plan to streamline the courses by developing regional consortia to oversee the programs."</span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996755269687066601.post-48224434674321175822014-10-15T16:31:00.002-07:002014-10-15T16:56:25.875-07:00Governor’s Budget Summary – 2013-14<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Adult Education and Apprenticeship Realignment</b></span></div>
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Currently, K‑12 school districts and community colleges are authorized to provide adult<br />
education instruction. However, there is no statewide requirement or mechanism to<br />
coordinate the efforts of these two systems. As a result, the state has an inefficient<br />
and redundant system that is not always structured in the best interest of adult learners.<br />
Further, funding for the K‑12 adult education program is currently flexible, available for any<br />
educational purpose, and many districts are eliminating their programs and redirecting this<br />
funding to support their core instructional programs.<br />
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To create a more accountable and centralized adult education learning structure,<br />
the Budget proposes $315.7 million Proposition 98 General Fund to fund a comparable<br />
K‑12 adult education service delivery system. It proposes an increase of $300 million<br />
to support the program within the community colleges. It also shifts $15.7 million for<br />
the Apprenticeship Program. The proposal eliminates the current bifurcated system and<br />
places the community colleges in a position to improve coordination at the regional and<br />
statewide levels. Community colleges are better positioned than K‑12 schools to address<br />
the needs of adult learners because that is their core function. Funding will be allocated<br />
from a new adult education block grant based on the number of students served, and the<br />
colleges will be encouraged to leverage the capacity and expertise currently available at<br />
the K‑12 district adult schools. Additional detail on this proposal is discussed in the Higher<br />
Education Chapter.Governor’s Budget Summary – 2013-14<br />
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<a href="http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2013-14/pdf/BudgetSummary/Kthru12Education.pdf">http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2013-14/pdf/BudgetSummary/Kthru12Education.pdf</a><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Chalkduster; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A Newsletter on Adult Education in California<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Chalkduster;">DELIBERATIONS ON ADULT
EDUCATION TRIGGER MAJOR ISSUES:</span></u></b><span style="font-family: Chalkduster;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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As the upcoming legislative session gets closer, major adult
education issues are surfacing that require thoughtful analysis. The following
are offered for initial review, and this is offered with the thought that
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Chalkduster;">Level of 2015-16 Funding for
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Prior to the 2009 flexibility authority, K-12 adult
education received over $750 million that was restricted to the program. Since
flexibility, about half of the funds have been swept for other district
purposes. Now a critical question is what would be the right amount for
2015-16.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seventy AB 86 regional adult education consortia are
presently analyzing the need for adult education programs. The consortia work
should result in a funding request in excess of any past amounts. The AB 86 documents indicating statewide
figures for adult education substantiates the need. As examples, in California 7,322,792 adults
lack a high school diploma and 15,728, 547 are classified as English learners.
Assigning one adult education A.D.A. to each English learner would amount to
over $37 billion.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Once an amount is determined,
the next issue is how will the funds get to the local district. Should the
funds go directly to the district or should they go to a consortium to be
distributed to each district. K-12 adult education advocates prefer that the
funds go straight to the district because of the following:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Avoids another
level of bureaucracy<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Keeps the adult
education connected to the district and allows it to serve the needs of parents
and credit recovery for high school students <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Avoids conflicts
with facility usage<o:p></o:p></li>
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Parenting, Older Adults, and Closed Programs:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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A number of other issues will need to be explored further
within the context of a new adult education program. Consortia participants need to analyze the
consortia in terms of how the work needs
to continue with state support. Districts
and consortia need to advise on whether parenting and older adults programs
have a future role in the program. Another topic that needs to be included is
what should be done about district programs that were eliminated during
flexibility.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Visit your local legislators and their staffs, and also invite
them to your programs. Inform them about your consortium activities and the
great potential for increasing educational opportunities for adults.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996755269687066601.post-16935824515467320782014-09-19T21:56:00.000-07:002014-09-19T21:58:06.374-07:00Heed the WarningThis letter deems outsourcing to K-12 Adult Ed illegal and,<b> <a href="http://www.asccc.org/resolutions/assign-responsibility-adult-education-california-community-colleges"><span style="color: red;">once again</span></a></b>, makes assertions that are untrue.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="color: red; white-space: pre;"><a href="http://saveouradultschool.wordpress.com/2014/07/28/why-californias-adult-schools-need-dedicated-funding/">There are many reasons to support desigated funding for K-12 AE.</a> </span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="color: red; white-space: pre;">This letter provides another one...</span></h3>
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br /></span>April<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>14,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2014<br />
Coast<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Community<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>College<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>District<br />
1370<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Adams<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Costa<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mesa,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>CA<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>92626<br />
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Dear<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Board of Trustees, Coast<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Administration, Faculty, Students, and the immediate community<br />
served by the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>CCCD:<br />
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We,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the chairs<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>and co-chairs,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>of the English<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>as a Second Language (ESL)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>departments of the three CCCD colleges, Coastline, Orange Coast College<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(OCC), and Golden<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>West College (GWC), would<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>like<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>to reply to and<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>address the concerns related to our<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>departments in relation to the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>proposal to be<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>discussed by the Board of Trustees on Wednesday, April<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>16, 2014.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <b><i>The<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>proposal,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Community<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Services<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Considerations<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> and<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Recommendations,” outlines<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>plan<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>to outsource all ESL courses<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>more than two<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>levels below English 100 to local<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>K-12 Adult Education<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>programs. As<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>we understand<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the Ed code policies, this proposal<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>would be<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>not only devastating to the second<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>language<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>students of the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Coast District<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>but would also be illegal:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i></b><br />
<b><i>SB<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1456 (2012) Section 8/78213<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a.3: Assessment instruments<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>shall<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> not be used to<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>exclude students<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>from<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> admission to community colleges.</i></b><br />
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While we<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> understand that it would be ideal to have students who place two levels below<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Freshman<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Composition (English 100) in order to guarantee higher numbers of students succeeding in Freshman Comp and/or other college-level classes, the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>reality is that the majority of<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>second-language students<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>need more levels of ESL:<br />
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Although<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>international students may have a TOEFL score of 500, many still place below the desired<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>two<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>levels below English 100. Additionally, students<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>who<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>come from intensive language schools<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>with<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>whom we<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>have<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>agreements also place below<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the two levels.<br />
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Lastly, we have international students<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>who<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>have<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>graduated<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>from<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>American<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(mostly<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>private)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>high<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>schools who<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>face<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>same<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>situation.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>International<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>students<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>would<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>not<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>want<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>to<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>spend years<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>in<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>intensive<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>language<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>schools,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>and<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>their<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>parents<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>would<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>not<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>want<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>to<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>have<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>to<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>bear<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>this<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>expense. If<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>this<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>proposal<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>were<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>put<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>into<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>effect,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>our<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>District<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>would<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>lose<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>substantial<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>amount<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>of<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>revenue<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>generated<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>by<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>international<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>student<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>fees.<br />
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Coastline<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>receives<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>from<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>$79,000<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>to<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>$100,000<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>per<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>year<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(depending<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>on<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>enrollment) in<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Title<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>II<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>funds<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
to<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>supplement<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>their<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ESL<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>courses.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>This<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>funding<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>is<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>only<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>available<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>for<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>beginning-level<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>non-credit<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ESL<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>courses.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>college<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>would<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>not<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>want<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>to<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>lose<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>this<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>funding.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>District-wide<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>FTES<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>apportionment<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>for<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ESL<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>courses<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>more<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>than<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>two<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>levels<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>below<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>transfer<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>also<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>needs<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>to<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>be<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>taken<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>into<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>consideration.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Coastline,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>for<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>example,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>earned<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>652<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>FTES for<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2012-13.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>At<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>$4,500<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>per<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>FTES,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>this<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>represents<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>$2,934,000<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>in<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>apportionment.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>courses<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>at<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Coastline’s<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>highest<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>level,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>two<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>levels<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>below<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>transfer,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>would<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>account<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>for<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>very<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>small<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>portion<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>of<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>this<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>income.Resident<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>students<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(members<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>of<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>community)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>rely<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>on<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>financial<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>aid—which<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>cannot<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>be<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>used<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>for<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>community<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>education courses-- for<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>their<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ESL<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>courses.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Financial<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>aid<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>used<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>for<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ESL<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>courses<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(up<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>to<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>30<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>units)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>does<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>not<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>count<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>toward<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Satisfactory<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Academic<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Progress<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(SAP).<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>District<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>would<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>not<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>only<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>be<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>providing<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>disservice<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>to<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>these<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>students<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>but<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>would<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>also<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>be<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>missing<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>out<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>on<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>sorely<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>needed<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>source<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>of<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>revenue.<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
The<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>California<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Academic<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Senate’s<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2010<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>recommendation<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>states<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>that<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Course<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>reductions<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>in<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
transfer,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>basic<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>skills,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>or<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>career<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>technical<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>education<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>courses<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>or<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>programs<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>should<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>occur<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>only<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>after<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
collegial<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>consultation<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>with<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>local<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>academic<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>senate<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>as<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>defined<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>in<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Title<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5.”<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>All<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ESL<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>courses<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>in<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>CCCD<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>fall<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>under<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Basic<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Skills<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>category.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<br />
According<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>to<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Student<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Success<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Initiative,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>students<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>who<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>need<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>remediation<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>through<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>basic<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>skills<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
should<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>have<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>access<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>to<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>those<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>courses,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>starting<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>with their<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>first<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>year<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>of<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>college.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>110<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>unit<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>cap<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>on<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
transfer/degree<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>units<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>does<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>not<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>count<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>basic<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>skill<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>or<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ESL<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>units. Clearly,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>much<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>thought<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>has<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>been<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>put<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>into<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>above<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>mentioned<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>proposal.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Nevertheless,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>it<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>is<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>imperative<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>to<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>check<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>legalities<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>regarding<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ed<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Code,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>as<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>well<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>as<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>issues<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>related<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>to<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ACCJC<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>and<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>other<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Accreditation<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>issues.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Faculty<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>members<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>who<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>served<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>on<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>committee<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>charged<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>with<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>making<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>recommendations<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>for<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>this<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>project<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>specified<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>that<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>it<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>should<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>not<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>destroy<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>any<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>part<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>of<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>any<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>existing<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>academic<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>program<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>within<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>district.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>This<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>recommendation<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>was<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>not<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>honored.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Above<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>all,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>we<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>need<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>to<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>provide<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>pedagogically<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>sound<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>program<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>for<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ESL<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>students<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>in<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>district.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Huntington<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Beach<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Adult<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Education<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>program,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>for<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>example,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>receives<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>large<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>portion<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>of<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>its<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>funding<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>from<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>WIA<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Title<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>II<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>grants.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Funding<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>is<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>based<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>on<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>pre-post<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>test<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>gains<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>on<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>CASAS<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>test,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>which<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>assesses<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>proficiency<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>in<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Life<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Skills”<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ESL<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(for<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>shopping,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>banking,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>driving,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>and<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>other<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>functions<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>needed<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>for<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>survival<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>in<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>community).<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ESL<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>programs<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>at<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>OCC,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>GWC,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>and<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>CCC focus<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>on<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>academic<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>reading,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>writing,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>speaking,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>and<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>note-taking<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>skills<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>needed<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>for<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>success<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>in<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>college.<br />
<br />
The<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>AB<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>86<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>task<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>force<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>is<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>responsible<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>for<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>determining<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(over<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>time,<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>in<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>thoughtful<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>way)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>optimal<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
relationship<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>between<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>K-12<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Adult<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Education<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ESL<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>programs<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>in our<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>community<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>and<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>our<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>college<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ESL<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
programs<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>and<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>functions<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>each<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>should<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>have<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>in<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>order<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>to<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>offer<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>best<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>possible<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>education<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>for<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>our<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
students.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>We<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>respectfully<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>request<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>that<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>you<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>allow<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>this<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>process<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>to<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>go<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>forward<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>as<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>planned.<br />
We<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>welcome<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>opportunity<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>to<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>discuss<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>these<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>matters<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>with<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>all<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>of<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>you.<br />
Respectfully,<br />
<br />
Academic Senate Members<br />
(I haven't included names here)<br />
<br />
Source:<a href="http://www.orangecoastcollege.edu/about_occ/AcademicSenate/Agendas%20and%20Minutes/AS%20Meeting%20Docs%2005-06-14.pdf">http://www.orangecoastcollege.edu/about_occ/AcademicSenate/Agendas%20and%20Minutes/AS%20Meeting%20Docs%2005-06-14.pdf</a><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><i>The <a href="http://ab86.cccco.edu/">AB86</a> regional consortia system does not include funding for </i></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><i>Older Adult Education and Parent Education. </i></b></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The California Department of Education’s 2011 “</span><a href="https://www.otan.us/strategicplanning/plan.html" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">Linking Adults to Opportunity</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">” report on adult education has an excellent section on the “ripple effects” of adult education. These effects included better community health, greater school success for children, stronger families, and reduced recidivism. Adult school programs for older adults and adults with disabilities, along with parent education and family literacy classes, contribute to these “ripple effects” just as much as workforce preparation, programs, and perhaps more. The state of California should continue to fund these programs, so that our communities can continue to reap the benefits. (</span><a href="http://saveouradultschool.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/sb-173-hearing-monday-save-older-adult-parent-education-family-literacy-and-adults-with-disabilities-programs/" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;">Save Your Adult School blog post</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, written by Kristen Pursley on 5/10/13)</span></h3>
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DEMOGRAPHICS OF CALIFORNIA’S
SENIOR POPULATION</h3>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Compiled by California Commission on Aging</span></h6>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">California’s population
age 60 and over has grown rapidly throughout this century (see Table
1). Between 1950 and 2000, older adults in this state increased from
1.6 million to 4.7 million, an increase of 194 percent. This trend
will continue as the cohort age 60 and over grows to 12.8 million by
2050, an increase of 172 percent from 2000.</span></div>
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<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Table 1</b></span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>California
Population Growth</b></span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Age 60 and
Over</b></span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">(in millions,
rounded)</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">The largest growth rate
will occur during the next 30 years as the Baby Boomers, those born
between 1946 and 1964, reach age 60. The first wave of Baby Boomers
will turn 60 between 2000 and 2010, contributing to a 36 percent
increase in California’s older adult population during this decade.
By 2010, nearly 16 percent of Californians will be age 60 or older.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Table 2</b></span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Projected
Growth in Population Age 60 and Over</b></span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>2000-2040</b></span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>By Age
Groups</b></span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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</div>
<table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="7" cellspacing="0" style="width: 641px;">
<colgroup><col width="54"></col>
<col width="107"></col>
<col width="124"></col>
<col width="124"></col>
<col width="81"></col>
<col width="64"></col>
</colgroup><tbody>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="54">
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Age</b></span></div>
<div align="CENTER">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Range</b></span></div>
</td>
<td width="107">
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Total
Population</b></span></div>
<div align="CENTER">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>(2000
Census)</b></span></div>
</td>
<td width="124">
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Total
Population</b></span></div>
<div align="CENTER">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>(2010 DoF
Projections)</b></span></div>
</td>
<td width="124">
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in; page-break-after: avoid;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Total Population</b></span></div>
<div align="CENTER">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>(2040 DoF
Projections)</b></span></div>
</td>
<td width="81">
<div align="CENTER">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Total
Population Change</b></span></div>
</td>
<td width="64">
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Percent</b></span></div>
<div align="CENTER">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Change</b></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="54">
<div align="CENTER">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">60-64</span></div>
</td>
<td width="107">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">1,146,841</span></div>
</td>
<td width="124">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">1,944,211</span></div>
</td>
<td width="124">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">2,579,283</span></div>
</td>
<td width="81">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">1,432,442</span></div>
</td>
<td width="64">
<div align="CENTER">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">125%</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="54">
<div align="CENTER">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">65-69</span></div>
</td>
<td width="107">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">984,535</span></div>
</td>
<td width="124">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">1,388,990</span></div>
</td>
<td width="124">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">2,488,577</span></div>
</td>
<td width="81">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">1,504,042</span></div>
</td>
<td width="64">
<div align="CENTER">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">153%</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="54">
<div align="CENTER">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">70-74</span></div>
</td>
<td width="107">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">903,288</span></div>
</td>
<td width="124">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">1,033,176</span></div>
</td>
<td width="124">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">2,286,549</span></div>
</td>
<td width="81">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">1,383,261</span></div>
</td>
<td width="64">
<div align="CENTER">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">153%</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="54">
<div align="CENTER">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">75-79</span></div>
</td>
<td width="107">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">779,347</span></div>
</td>
<td width="124">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">799,244</span></div>
</td>
<td width="124">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">1,960,630</span></div>
</td>
<td width="81">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">1,181,283</span></div>
</td>
<td width="64">
<div align="CENTER">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">152%</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="54">
<div align="CENTER">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">80-84</span></div>
</td>
<td width="107">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">502,831</span></div>
</td>
<td width="124">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">615,927</span></div>
</td>
<td width="124">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">1,430,462</span></div>
</td>
<td width="81">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">927,631</span></div>
</td>
<td width="64">
<div align="CENTER">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">184%</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="54">
<div align="CENTER">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">85+</span></div>
</td>
<td width="107">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">425,657</span></div>
</td>
<td width="124">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">629,241</span></div>
</td>
<td width="124">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">1,297,890</span></div>
</td>
<td width="81">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">872,233</span></div>
</td>
<td width="64">
<div align="CENTER">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">205%</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="54">
<div align="CENTER">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Totals</span></div>
</td>
<td width="107">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">4,742,499</span></div>
</td>
<td width="124">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">6,410,789</span></div>
</td>
<td width="124">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">12,043,391</span></div>
</td>
<td width="81">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">7,300,892</span></div>
</td>
<td width="64">
<div align="CENTER">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">154%</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Table 3</b></span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>A Snapshot
of Older Californians Age 65+ 2000</b></span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<center>
<table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="7" cellspacing="0" style="width: 468px;">
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</colgroup><tbody>
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<td width="336">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">With high school diploma or higher</span><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></sup><br />
</td>
<td width="102">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">70.1%</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td width="336">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Limited English proficiency</span><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></sup><br />
</td>
<td width="102">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">16.9%</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td width="336">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Medi-Cal beneficiaries</span><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></sup><br />
</td>
<td width="102">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">20%</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td width="336">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Below poverty level</span><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></sup><br />
</td>
<td width="102">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">8.1%</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td width="336">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Poor or near poor (0-199% of poverty)</span><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></sup><br />
</td>
<td width="102">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">28.6%</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="336">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Homeowners</span><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></sup><br />
</td>
<td width="102">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">74.5%</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="336">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Living alone</span><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></sup><br />
</td>
<td width="102">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">26%</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="336">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Women age 65+ living alone</span><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></sup><br />
</td>
<td width="102">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">31.4%</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td width="336">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Living in a nursing home</span><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></sup><br />
</td>
<td width="102">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">3.2%</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="336">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Number of grandparents responsible for basic
needs of grandchildren</span><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></sup><br />
</td>
<td width="102">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">294,969</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="336">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Proportion of Californians age 75 and older with
a driver’s license</span><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></sup><br />
</td>
<td width="102">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">59.6%</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="336">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Percent with any disability</span><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></sup><br />
</td>
<td width="102">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">42.2%</span></div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Table 4</b></span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>California’s
Projected Population Age 60+ as a Percent of Total Population by Race
and Ethnicity</b></span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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</div>
<center>
<table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="7" cellspacing="0" style="width: 639px;">
<colgroup><col width="189"></col>
<col width="73"></col>
<col width="73"></col>
<col width="73"></col>
<col width="73"></col>
<col width="72"></col>
</colgroup><tbody>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="189">
<div align="CENTER">
<b>Racial/Ethnic Group</b></div>
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="CENTER">
<b>2005</b></div>
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="CENTER">
<b>2010</b></div>
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="CENTER">
<b>2020</b></div>
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="CENTER">
<b>2030</b></div>
</td>
<td width="72">
<div align="CENTER">
<b>2040</b></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="189">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">White/Non-Hispanic</span><br />
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">64.2%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">60%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">52.7%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">44%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="72">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">36.1%</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="189">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Hispanic/Latino</span><br />
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">16.6%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">18.8%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">23.5%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">30%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="72">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">37.5%</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="189">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Asian</span><br />
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">11.6%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">13%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">14%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">15.6%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="72">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">16.8%</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="189">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Black/African American</span><br />
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">5.5%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">5.6%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">5.7%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">5.7%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="72">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">5.3%</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="189">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Multiracial</span><br />
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">1.1%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">1.3%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">1.5%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">1.6%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="72">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">1.6%</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="189">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">American Indian/Alaska Native</span><br />
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">0.7%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">0.8%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">1.2%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">1.5%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="72">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">1.8%</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="TOP">
<td width="189">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander</span><br />
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">0.2%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">0.3%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">0.3%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="73">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">0.4%</span></div>
</td>
<td width="72">
<div align="RIGHT">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">0.5%</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</center>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Source:
State of California, Department of Finance. </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><i>Race/Ethnic
Population with Age and Sex Detail, 2000-2050</i></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">,
Sacramento, CA. May 2004.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">In the late 1990s,
California’s White, non-Latino population became a minority group
for the first time since the 1849 Gold Rush. California’s older
adults are and will continue to grow ethnically and culturally
diverse. While 64 percent of older adults are White/non-Latino
today, by 2040, the majority will be from groups now considered to be
ethnic minorities.</span></div>
<h3 class="western" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
<b>Age
Distribution in California</b></h3>
<ul>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">California’s
anticipated population growth by 2020: 172 percent.</span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">By 2020, the
population of seniors age 85 and older is expected to increase by
200 percent.</span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">In 2004, 5.1 million
Californians were over age 60, representing 14.4 percent of the
total 35.9 million state population. Of that number, 1.3 million
were over age 75 and 500,000 were age 85 and over.</span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">By 2050, life
expectancy in California is expected to increase from 78.8 to 84.2.</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<h1 class="western">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Gender Demographics</span></h1>
<ul>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Currently at and
below age 45, males outnumber females by 5 percent. By age 65,
females outnumber males by 40 percent and by three-to-one at age 90.</span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">In 2004, the ratio of
women over 60 to men over 60 was 128/100. </span>
</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Older women are at
increased risk of poverty, poor health, and social challenges due to
their longer lifespan. </span>
</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">The gender gap is
expected to decline by 2050, with the gap between men and women
dropping to just 14 percent at age 65 and falling to 50 percent in
Californians over 90.</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<h1 class="western">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Racial Demographics</span></h1>
<ul>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">In 2004, California’s
minority population represented 35 percent of the state’s total. </span>
</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">With the growth
anticipated by 2020, the largest change in the state’s aging
ethnic population will be in the population of older Hispanic and
Asian Americans. </span>
</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">A three-fold increase
is anticipated by 2020 in the older Hispanic population, making this
the largest ethnic group of California seniors.</span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Growth of the
non-Hispanic white population is expected to increase by 50 percent.</span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">A change of only 1
percent -- from 5 percent to 6 percent -- is projected in the
population of non-English speaking seniors.</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<h1 class="western">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Income and Poverty Rates</span></h1>
<ul>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">The average income of
elderly Californians is about $25,500. </span>
</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">U.S. natives living
in California received approximately $6,000 more per year in income
during 2000 than U.S. natives nationwide, and foreign-born
Californians’ income was approximately $6,000 less than the
national average.</span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">California poverty
rates are lower than in other states; however, poverty rates have
increased since 1990 in all but the oldest cohort (those 85 and
over).</span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Approximately 13
percent of California seniors were employed in 2003, with 20 percent
of seniors’ incomes coming from their own earnings.</span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Many older
Californians are expected to work beyond age 65 due to inadequate
savings.</span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Social Security
accounts for 28 percent of older Californians’ incomes.</span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Between 2020 and
2050, the percentage of older Californians with a higher education
is expected to remain static, in contrast to an expected 20 percent
to 24 percent increase in seniors without a high school diploma.</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<h1 class="western">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Health and Disability</span></h1>
<ul>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Disability rates
among older Californians and elders nationwide is decreasing.</span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Currently 17 percent
of elders are unable to perform basic self-care functions; the
number is expected to drop to 12 percent by 2030.</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<h1 class="western">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Housing Needs</span></h1>
<ul>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">In 2000, 58 percent
of California’s seniors resided with a spouse, 25 percent lived
alone, 14 percent lived in a family setting and 2.5 percent lived in
a nursing facility.</span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">82 percent of elders
living outside of an institution owned their own homes in 2000; 18
percent rented their homes.</span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Home ownership among
the elderly is expected to rise from about 3 million to 9 million by
2050 in relation to the general population increase.</span></div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Nursing home
occupancy is expected to double by 2050 (from 90,000 in 2000 to
approximately 170,000).</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<h5 class="western">
<b>Geographic Location</b></h5>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Los Angeles Basin and
the San Francisco Bay Area are now home to about two-thirds of the
state’s older population and that will likely continue over the
next 40 years. While every region, except the most rural areas of
the state, is expected to experience strong growth in its 60+
population, the largest increases are predicted for the Los Angeles
Basin and the San Joaquin Valley, where the number of older people is
expected to almost triple by 2040.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Currently, the age
dependency ratio does not vary much by region. The exception is the
Sacramento Valley-North Coast-Mountain region, which has 25 seniors
per 100 working-age adults compared to the state average of 18 per
100. By 2040, the rapidly aging Bay Area population is projected to
become the oldest area of the state, with 41 older adults per 100
working-age adults.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 8pt;">Information
derived from:</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 8pt;"><i>Strategic
Plan for an Aging California Population; Getting Ready for the “Baby
Boomers,”</i></span><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> California
Health and Human Service Agency, October 2003</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 8pt;"><i>California
State Plan on Aging 2005-2006, </i></span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">California
Health and Human Service Agency</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 8pt;"><i>Fault
Lines in the Shifting Landscape; the Future of Growing Older in
California-2010</i></span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">,
Institute for the Future and the Archstone Foundation, November 1999</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: 8pt;"><i>State
Profiles</i></span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">, National
Aging Program Information System, Administration on Aging</span></div>
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