tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832205589360987196.post1966906092660720930..comments2023-08-24T05:57:41.490-07:00Comments on Adult Education Matters: Adult Ed Trailer Bill Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832205589360987196.post-90022712328492106772015-05-18T18:08:20.545-07:002015-05-18T18:08:20.545-07:00I should add that many schools have shifted the bu...I should add that many schools have shifted the burden of providing Older Adults classes onto a fee-based system. That is how they were able to "float them along." Assembly Member Das Williams has suggested that that was a good solution - or alluded to the possibility of private funding sources. Fee-based might be viable in wealthier communities but it won't work where there is poverty. As we know, aging does not discriminate. We all get old, whatever our race, etc. Well... actually, there is a significant difference where gender is concerned. More women will live to be old than men will. So... we will all get old... but more women will become old than men. Uh oh.... does that make this a gender-based civil rights issue? And here's another interesting fact: http://billmoyers.com/2014/12/26/faces-senior-poverty-likely-women-color/ The new face of senior poverty will likely be women in color. So... while in fact, aging does not exactly "discriminate".... there will be more old women than old men... and the ones who are poor will be old women of color... and if they don't have the money to pay for fee-based classes for Older Adults, they won't have access to these classes which would help maintain their physical, social and cognitive well-being... unless they live in San Francisco... which... according to Professor Manuel Pastor, a demographer, is the only city in California becoming whiter... because of rising economic inequality. So... I guess they will have to BART in for their classes from the East Bay. The Peninsula has rapidly rising rents so that won't work, either. It's live in the East Bay and BART over to SF for the classes.Tree Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07982787927704665380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832205589360987196.post-91676654008101674242015-05-18T18:00:51.360-07:002015-05-18T18:00:51.360-07:00Barry, Adults with Disabilities have been included...Barry, Adults with Disabilities have been included for some time now. Older Adults, Parent Ed, Home Economics, and Financial Literacy were eliminated from future state funding through AB86. The mission was essentially narrowed at that time. Those programs have been able to float along until now. Officially, state funding for them will end on June 30th. Adult Schools can still offer them but they will not receive Adult Ed funds for them through the Regional Consortia Adult Ed Block Grant Funding stream. Things for Older Adults programs at the Community Colleges seem different. San Francisco is the sole provider of Adult Ed in San Francisco - a big area. CCSF (City College of San Francisco) provides Older Adults "Adult Education" through its non-credit program. The classes are free. They are funded by the normal way to fund Community Colleges - apportionment. So... does it look like you can free, state funded Older Adults Adult Education if you live in San Francisco? And a few other places where big Community Colleges which supply Adult Education through non-credit programs - such as in San Diego? But not if live in other parts of California? Yes, that's the way it looks to me. Does that seem like a civil rights or at the very least an important policy issues? Yes, it seems that way to me. I have written about it here on this blog. In order for that to change, policy makers will be need to be alerted and to change the policy - ie, Legislators. Some are very supportive of these programs. Some aren't. Adult Ed has changed a lot over the years as you can see in Kristen Pursley's powerpoint: http://adulteducationmatters.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-battle-for-adult-education-in.html At one point, in 1978, after Prop 13, both Older Adults and ESL were cut from state funding - but Parent Ed was retained. Surprising, eh? It's all in what folks perceive to be important at that time. What do we as a people consider to be important? What do we choose to fund? California has a lot of money. Some is taxed. Some (like pumping oil out of the ground) isn't. But there is a lot of it. And it goes to pay for a wide variety of things. After June 20, the part of the money bag that is controlled by the State, will not be paying for Older Adults Adult Education at Adult Schools - although it will be paying for Older Adults Adult Education through Community College non-credit.Tree Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07982787927704665380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832205589360987196.post-47021502205660879762015-05-17T20:57:13.865-07:002015-05-17T20:57:13.865-07:00It appears that Programs for Adults with Disabilit...It appears that Programs for Adults with Disabilities are now included, but Older Adult programs are still excluded. Is that correct?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14128489790599713277noreply@blogger.com