Adult Schools shifted to Community Colleges?
According to the LA Times, the Governor is planning to switch funding from K-12 to Community Colleges. What this would mean to our college is going to be obvious.
By Carla Rivera, Los Angeles Times
March 16, 2013, 7:15 p.m.
Areli Morris was frustrated that her poor English prevented her from helping her daughter in preschool. And she was embarrassed when the 4-year-old began correcting her pronunciation.
Morris, who is from El Salvador, has vastly improved her language skills since she began attending Azusa Adult School. For nearly 60 years the campus has served as a community resource for those, like Morris, who needed English classes, dropouts seeking high school diplomas, immigrants taking citizenship classes and those pursuing career and technical training.
But this semester may be the last for the Glendora campus; the Azusa school board voted to end the program in June. It is a casualty of continuing budget problems that have affected every level of education in the state. And its students' lives are likely to be jolted by a proposed restructuring of adult programs.
Adult schools operated by K-12 districts have historically provided the majority of classes for this group of students even as the state's 112 community colleges have increased their basic-skills offerings.
Gov. Jerry Brown's budget proposal shifts all responsibility for adult schools to community colleges. Under that plan, adult programs would be funded with a new grant of about $300 million in the 2013-14 budget.
Some see adult-school funding shift as disastrous
The governor's plan would make it the responsibility of community colleges. Providers think the plan unrealistic; students fear being out of their comfort zone.By Carla Rivera, Los Angeles Times
March 16, 2013, 7:15 p.m.
Areli Morris was frustrated that her poor English prevented her from helping her daughter in preschool. And she was embarrassed when the 4-year-old began correcting her pronunciation.
Morris, who is from El Salvador, has vastly improved her language skills since she began attending Azusa Adult School. For nearly 60 years the campus has served as a community resource for those, like Morris, who needed English classes, dropouts seeking high school diplomas, immigrants taking citizenship classes and those pursuing career and technical training.
But this semester may be the last for the Glendora campus; the Azusa school board voted to end the program in June. It is a casualty of continuing budget problems that have affected every level of education in the state. And its students' lives are likely to be jolted by a proposed restructuring of adult programs.
Adult schools operated by K-12 districts have historically provided the majority of classes for this group of students even as the state's 112 community colleges have increased their basic-skills offerings.
Gov. Jerry Brown's budget proposal shifts all responsibility for adult schools to community colleges. Under that plan, adult programs would be funded with a new grant of about $300 million in the 2013-14 budget.
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