Upcoming Dates & Events of Interest

to Adult Ed Advocates

 

 

2015-16 Fiscal Year Budget Timeline   This Adult Education Matters blogpost has a budget timeline provided by CCAE

 

January 9 - Friday.  The AB86 Workgroup declares Gov. Brown's Budget Proposal for Adult Ed "a victory for Adult Students across California."  The proposal includes 500 million in an Adult Education Block Grant.  To ensure stability, K-12 Adult Schools will continue to be funded at MOE levels for 1 more year.  After that, a new system of local allocation boards would determine how much money goes to each local school.  Click here to a summary of Gov. Brown's Budget Proposal for 2015-16 for more details.  The Adult Ed info is on page 24.

 

January 14 - Wednesday - Berkeley School District Board Meeting which will include discussion and possible vote about moving Berkeley Adult School off its campus (and decentralizing it) in order to move in an Elementary School.

 

January 19 - Monday - Martin Luther King Day.  "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

 

January 31 - CFT Adult Ed Commission Meeting - Southern California

 

March 20 - 22 - CFT Convention - Manhattan Beach (Southern California)

 

March 24 - CCAE Leg Day

 

April 20 - 21  CFT Lobby Days

 

April 24 - 26  - Network for Public Education Conference - Chicago, Illinois

 

April 30 - May 2 - CCAE State Conference - Universal City (Southern California)

 

Note:  Many of the conventions and conferences have early bird rates and some have scholarships.  Follow the links for more information on how to attend as cheaply as possible.   Crowdfund if need be but make sure someone from your area is going and representing K12 Adult School needs and interests.  Adult Ed is the stepchild's stepchild.  If we're not at the table, not only will we be shut out of connecting and decision-making, we may end up on the menu.  So if you care about K12 Adult Schools, attend or help someone else attend!

 

 

 

 

Past Events   (When trying to understand "how we got here," it's helpful to be able to look back at a timeline of events.)

 

Sept 22 - 28 National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week.  NCL - the National Coalition for Literacy - is looking to hear from Adult Schools around the country - what they are doing and they are advocating for Adult Ed.  You can send stories about your school or program to ncl@ncladvocacy.org. and they will post it on their blog.

 

Sept 27th:  CFT Adult Ed Commission meets at the San Jose Marriot.    Many Adult Ed teachers - on both the Community College and K-12 Adult Side, belong to CFT.    All CFT members can attend the meeting.  Only representatives from each Local can vote.   Unions work democratically and this is how they work:  Locals send representatives to these Commission meetings.  Representatives can bring resolutions to the meetings.  The Commission will vote on them.  If they pass through the Commission, they move up to the Executive Council.  If you belong to CFT, you can find who will represent you at this meeting and if they are going.  You can attend a meeting of your Local beforehand to decide what your AE Commission Rep should bring up at the meeting for discussion.

 

Oct 6 & 7:  AB86 Adult Ed Regional Planning Summit.  Regional Consortia were each invited to send

• 2 Regional Consortia Planning Leaders: one representing a member Community College District and one representing a member School District

• 2 Faculty Members/Teachers: One from a Community College District and one from a School District.

 

Oct 23 - 26:  2014 Annual CATESOL Conference in Santa Clara.  There will be an Adult Ed Discussion Group at this meeting.  Additionally, Student Leaders from San Mateo Adult School will present a workshop on The Power of Student Leadership at the conference.  All conferences are a chance to meet and network with other Adult Ed and Adult School folks, as well as with folks from outside those communities.  It is important to connect with as many people as possible in this work to save and rebuild Adult Ed in California.  Everyone needs to understand the situation that Adult Schools are in.  And everyone can contribute to turning the situation around.

 

Oct 24:  AB86 Webinar - Summit Debrief.  Find out what the AB86 Workgroup and others consider the take-aways from the AB86 Summit.