Shaking the Funding Tree: A Grant Writing Guide for Literacy Programs

Shaking the Funding Tree:  A Grant Writing Guide for Literacy Programs This guide, developed by CALPRO in collaboration with California Literacy, is designed to help literacy programs identify sources of funding and prepare a competitive proposal for funding. The guide includes templates and charts that the reader can use in preparing proposals.

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CA Adult Education Budget Cuts

Adult Education in California is experiencing unprecedented budget cuts.   Stay up-to-date with the latest adult education program reductions and eliminations across the state with this wiki: AdultEdBudgetCuts.

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Superintendent Showcases Adult Ed’s Value on TV

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Reach Higher, America

  from National Commission on Adult Literacy An economy that thrives in the new global environment! A workforce educated for jobs that pay a family-sustaining wage! America flourishing as a secure democracy and world leader! Powerful demographic evidence points to a clear connection between these ideals and the need for adult education and workforce skills [...]

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Press Articles on NMUSD Adult Education Program Cuts

Updated May 5, 2010 Daily Pilot April 28, 2010: District to hold adult ed meeting April 13, 2010: District looks to reinstate adult education Mar. 31, 2010: Drive aims to keep adult education Mar. 03, 2010: Putting kids before adults Feb. 24, 2010: School layoffs OKd Feb. 12, 2010: ESL classes on chopping block Feb. [...]

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Local Educational Services for our Adult Learners

updated June 16, 2010 Due to state and district budget cuts, NMUSD Adult School will close the following programs by the end of June: Adult Basic Education (ABE), Citizenship, and Workplace Readiness (vocational and computer skills). A small number of English as a Second Language (ESL) and High School Diploma (HSD) classes will remain open [...]

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Weighing in on Adult Education Budget Cuts

posted on the CA Adult Education Administrators Association website Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy Weighs In On Adult Education Budget Cuts! Email from Gail Spangenberg to Assembly Member Karen Bass and Senator Darrell Steinberg Dear Colleagues, We are deeply concerned about the severe cuts in California in the state’s adult education programs. California adult education [...]

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Assembly Bill 1673 (Mendoza) Adult Education

Some of you have requested more information about AB 1673.  Click here to read the bill in its entirety. Existing law authorizes the governing board of any school district maintaining secondary schools to establish and maintain classes for adults, provided these classes meet specified requirements.  This bill, subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget [...]

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Local Educational Services for our Students

updated March 4, 2010 Due to district budget cuts, NMUSD Adult School will close the following programs by the end of June: Adult Basic Education (ABE), Citizenship, English as a Second Language (ESL) and Workplace Readiness (vocational and computer skills). Only a “bare bones” high school diploma program will remain.  NMUSD Adult School serves 5000 students [...]

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CA Adult Education Budget Cuts

Adult Education in California is experiencing unprecedented budget cuts.   OTAN is tracking adult education program reductions and eliminations across the state on its wiki AdultEdBudgetCuts.

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Legislative and Budget Update

Teri Burns, Chief Legislative Advocate with School Innovations & Advocacy, presented Legislative and Budget Update at CAEAA’s Thirteenth Annual State Conference last week.  SI&A studied the impact of flexibility on adult education programs across the state.  Slides 48-63 give you the results of their 2009 survey.  Slides 64-70 preview new adult ed legislation. Download PowerPoint View PDF

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LAO State Budget and Adult Education

James Soland, Fiscal and Policy Analyst for the California Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO), presented The State Budget and Adult Education at CAEAA’s Thirteenth Annual State Conference last week.  Presentation overview: provide a general budget update discuss categorical flexibility generally discuss impact of budget and flexibility on adult education consider related policy issues. Download PowerPoint Download [...]

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Wiki on Adult Ed Budget Cuts

http://adultedbudgetcuts.wikispaces.com/

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Impact of the May 19 Ballot Propositions

This report comes from School Services of California, Inc., publication date – March 20, 2009:   Impact of the May 19 Ballot Propositions.

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Adult Ed Budget Forum

 From the  California Department of Education Adult Education Office: The purpose of the Adult Education Budget Forum is to provide adult schools with the latest budget information, a place to post questions, receive answers as fast as they can be determined, and view what other programs around the state are doing during these unique and [...]

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More on the State Budget, Adult Ed, and Flexibility

This information was posted on ACSA’s website on March 9:   ACSA fights for adult ed, ROP funding.

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New State Budget Information

Here is a collection of informational resources on the new state budget. Association of CA School Administrators (ACSA) 2008-09 and 2009-10 State Budget: Initial Analysis (Feb 20 version) Outreach and Technical Assistance Network (OTAN) Update on the State Budget for Adult Education (OTAN website) Update on the State Budget-for-adult-education (Word Doc) School Services of CA (SSC) [...]

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