Bulletin #2 President's comments on Leg Report
The essential question for me was how and why Adult Education as a "stand alone, self -revenue generating program, not strictly a catargorical program etc" ended up in Tier III flexibility. Indeed, the thrust of our arguements on Leg Day in March was that Adult Education did not belong there and was not a categorical program as such. So why did we end up there? This was the question I asked Jeff in Pasadena at his presentation at the State Conference.
The answer then was that the adult education funding was too big to leave out if 'flexibility" was going be a viable plan. However, Jeff's latest insight to this question that we are in Tier III "because of the large pot of money that not been allocated through the full implementation of AB23 that authorized the redistriibution of ADA beginningin 2006-07 '' seems to me to me the one that rings true.
Quite simply, legislators must have taken the view that as we were not spending all the money adult education had been allocated, there must indeed be some slack there and room for cuts and flexibility!
I am pleased to see that "the reduction in the number of adults allowed in ROP programs has been suspended aspart of Tier III flexibility,(Hancock Bill). It simply made no sense to be limiting the number of adults in ROP programs either in normal times and particulaly in these times of high unemployment. Adminisistrators will not have to spend time jiggling around converting ROP programs to adult ed. programs
Jeff's futher recommendation that the legislative function become a Section function "rather than organizing a single day in Sacramento" also makes enormous sense to me. I enjoyed Leg Days as much as anyone, but the action is at the local level now.
In fact, it's all about the relationship your school has with its local school district. If they like you and value what you do, your school will survive. If they don't , you won't! Therefore, anything that promotes value and visibilty to your school Board and Superintendent is the way to go in influencing decisions that affect your future.
The answer then was that the adult education funding was too big to leave out if 'flexibility" was going be a viable plan. However, Jeff's latest insight to this question that we are in Tier III "because of the large pot of money that not been allocated through the full implementation of AB23 that authorized the redistriibution of ADA beginningin 2006-07 '' seems to me to me the one that rings true.
Quite simply, legislators must have taken the view that as we were not spending all the money adult education had been allocated, there must indeed be some slack there and room for cuts and flexibility!
I am pleased to see that "the reduction in the number of adults allowed in ROP programs has been suspended aspart of Tier III flexibility,(Hancock Bill). It simply made no sense to be limiting the number of adults in ROP programs either in normal times and particulaly in these times of high unemployment. Adminisistrators will not have to spend time jiggling around converting ROP programs to adult ed. programs
Jeff's futher recommendation that the legislative function become a Section function "rather than organizing a single day in Sacramento" also makes enormous sense to me. I enjoyed Leg Days as much as anyone, but the action is at the local level now.
In fact, it's all about the relationship your school has with its local school district. If they like you and value what you do, your school will survive. If they don't , you won't! Therefore, anything that promotes value and visibilty to your school Board and Superintendent is the way to go in influencing decisions that affect your future.
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