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CA
Code of Regulations and CA Ed Code
Chancellor's
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California
State
Statewide
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ESL
and Adult Education Issues
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California
Code of Regulations and California Ed Code
- Noncredit
courses at California Community Colleges: standards
are set forth in the California
Code of Regulations, Title 5, § 55002(c). (Click
on California Code of Regulations, over on left. Then, click on the
+ to the left of TITLE 5. Education, over on left. Then, click on
the + to the left of Division 6. California Community Colleges. Then,
click on Query Templates: Go to a Specific Section (bottom right)
and type in the section number.)
- Open
access at the California community colleges is defined in
the California Code of Regulations,
Title 5, § 51006(a). (Follow directions given above.)
- Authorized categories
for state-supported noncredit education are set forth
in the California
Education Code, § 84757. (Click next to Education
Code and type in the section number.)
California
Community Colleges
- Departments
at the Chancellor's Office:
- Basic
Skills and English as a Second Language (ESL)
- Noncredit
(Adult Education)
- Chancellor's
Office contact
people for Basic Skills and ESL
- Chancellor's
Office has a Basic Skills/ESL Advisory Committee.
There are Agenda/Comments and Notes from their 2/25/05
meeting. [Topsy's
note: I think you would fine this interesting reading. There's
considerable detail here.]
- The Chancellor's
Office put together a Briefing
Book on the California Community Colleges for Gov. Schwarzenegger's
Administration. See Section I.B. iv and v for information about
Basic Skills Instruction and Noncredit Education,
with reference to relevant reports.
- The
Board of Governors Agenda item on Non-Credit
Education, A Portal to the Future, was distributed and discussed
at their regular meeting on January 11-12, 2005 as
Item 7.1. Topsy's note: there is a lot of detail in this report
about the goals of Adult Ed, ESL, and authorization and funding paths
for each. Same document in Word.
- The Chancellor's
Office has a RFB (Request for Bid) dated 1/18/05
out for a new study of adult education in California and the community
colleges. Excerpts:
"The
Chancellor’s Office has the responsibility for all curriculum
review and approval and has a long-standing relationship with
the U.S. Department of Education and the California Department
of Education to work toward the effective integration and coordination
of career technical education with academics and other instructional
systems within the community college system. The current State
Plan for Vocational and Technical Education has provisions to
enhance a fully articulated curriculum and services. By improving
the linkages among noncredit adult education, career technical
education, general education and other modes of instruction it
will help to provide a continuum of articulated curriculum, improve
student matriculation and retention, help special population students
to achieve their educational and career goals, and assist the
community colleges to achieve their student performance outcomes."
"This
is a one-time only project that will use a team of highly skilled
professional facilitators, researchers, and strategic/logistical
planners required to expedite the work to advance system improvements
to noncredit adult education. The project team is expected to
be highly adept at multi-tasking and designing research-based
statewide advisory/input structures as well as to work under short-timelines
to prepare the necessary documents to bring noncredit adult education
guidelines, policies and practices up-to-date and aligned with
other community college instructional systems."
California
State
California
State Plan for Adult Education 1999-2004 [Topsy's note: I couldn't
find an updated plan]
Academic
Senate for the California Community Colleges
Issues
in Basic Skills Assessment and Placement in the California Community
Colleges
Adopted Fall 2004 [Topsy's note: tangentially related]
Recent
national documents about adult ed and community
colleges:
From the Council
for Advancement of Adult Literacy:
Professional
Organizations
California
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (CATESOL)
CATESOL has a
position statement on
the differences between English as a second language and basic skills
instruction at post-secondary levels.
Current events
note: Bush is proposing to cut
funding for adult ed in his next budget.
T.N. Smalley 4/12/05 |