The Adult Education section is on page 33.
I've copied it out here:
The 2013 Budget Act provided 25 million dollars Prop 98
General Fund for two-year planning and
implementation grants for regional consortia of community college districts and
K-12 districts, $15.1 million Prop 98 General Fund Reversion for the Adults in
Correctional Facilities, and required K-12 Districts to maintain the 2012-13
level of adult education and career technical education programs in 2013-14 and
2015-16.
Adult education consortia plans will be completed by early
2015, and the Administration intends to make an investment in the 2015-17
budget for adult education, including adult education in county jails, through
a single restricted categorical program.
The Administration will continue to work jointly with the State
Department of Education and the California Community College Chancellor’s
Office to complete the adult education consortia
plans, while working with the Legislature to ensure that any legislation
pertaining to adult education aligns with and supports the planning process
currently underway and provides consistent guidelines to the K-12 and community
college districts.
(Highlights mine. But that "single restricted categorical program" is a big deal and I want to know more about how that would play out - the good, the bad, the new, etc.)
This is a proposed budget. The public has to review and weigh in on it. Same with the Legislature. There is the whole tweaking, revising, voting, approving, not approving, arguing, vetoing, not vetoing yet to come.
In the meantime, what do you think? Are we seeing the regeneration for Adult Education?
Perhaps not a regeneration but a shift in responsibility.
ReplyDeleteMaestroJuan- some of this has a danger of self-defining prophecy, that is the "shift in responsibility" is left over from January, 2013 when the Governor was clear that he meant "shift" adult ed away from K-12 to the CCC. Some in the CC and the public don't understand that things are very different now. AB86 presumes that there are two delivery systems who've planned to work together in new ways that serve lower skilled and immigrant adults better. The regional plans that will be presented for funding will assume two systems, as did the Legislative Analyst Office. "Single" funding stream has not been defined, and exactly as Cynthia observes,for many months discussion/advocacy/conflict/resolution and good imaginations will address what "dedicated categorical funding for adult ed" (which is what we now have been promised) will look like. The thing that I take away from this week's budget proposal is the astonishing use of "categorical", which was a concept supposedly gone forever under Local Control Funding Formula.
ReplyDeleteMaestroJuan- some of this has a danger of self-defining prophecy, that is the "shift in responsibility" is left over from January, 2013 when the Governor was clear that he meant "shift" adult ed away from K-12 to the CCC. Some in the CC and the public don't understand that things are very different now. AB86 presumes that there are two delivery systems who've planned to work together in new ways that serve lower skilled and immigrant adults better. The regional plans that will be presented for funding will assume two systems, as did the Legislative Analyst Office. "Single" funding stream has not been defined, and exactly as Cynthia observes,for many months discussion/advocacy/conflict/resolution and good imaginations will address what "dedicated categorical funding for adult ed" (which is what we now have been promised) will look like. The thing that I take away from this week's budget proposal is the astonishing use of "categorical", which was a concept supposedly gone forever under Local Control Funding Formula.
ReplyDeleteFourteen categorical programs still exist under LCFF, including Adults in Correctional Facilities. The fact that K-12 adult ed hasn't regained categorical status within LCFF explains Maestro Juan's comment. The categorical status we've been promised, if it arrives through the consortia, will indeed mark a shift in responsibility. Last year, adult ed insiders explained the "two year rollout" in the shift to community college, as well as the "contracting back to school districts" which is viewed as the "seamless transition". The political poker game is in full swing now. Everything hinges on whether the categorical status is under LCFF or through the regional consortia. http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/restore-protected-funding
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