The Master Plan for Education reaffirms the importance of Adult Education in its vision for California's education system. It also notes inconsistencies in delivery and achievement measures used by high school and unified school district providers and community college providers that works against a cohesive and collaborative approach to serving adult learners. SB 823 would establish funding priorities for adult education and charge a task force to assess the appropriateness of these priorities, the criteria that should be used to evaluate the effectiveness of California's adult education system and to recommend strategies to address the inconsistencies in the adult education delivery system. Your comments and suggestions in response to the following questions will help guide the work of this task force.
* What criteria should be used for evaluating how well California's adult education system is meeting students education goals? To what extent should these criteria be identical for instruction provided through K-12 districts and instruction provided through community colleges?
* How can instructional qualifications be modified to permit adult education instructors and community college noncredit instructors to teach comparable courses in both high school and community college settings?
* What else, besides basic education, instruction in English as a second language, and vocational training, if anything, should be a funding priority for Adult Education?
It would help participants if you try to keep your comments pertaining to adult education within this discussion thread by clicking reply and identifying the topic of your remarks ratehr than opening a new discussion thread. It will also help with summarizing the discussion at the end of the day.
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