Innovative Programs for SF Prisoners

What does it take to launch a successful adult school program inside a California jail? The administrators and staff at the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department’s Five Keys Charter School—the nation’s first charter school for adults inside a county jail—know firsthand.

Oakland Faces Massive Budget Cuts

The budget presented by the governor in the May Revise cut approximately $14 million from the Child Development Centers and Early Childhood Education programs in Oakland Unified School District. Recently, Superintendent Tony Smith told Oakland Adult and Career Education (OACE) Director Brigitte Marshall of plans to cut an additional $5 million from the Adult Education allocation for 2010/11 to provide some partial backfilling of lost child care funds for low income working families.

Save Adult Education Action Template

The Newport-Mesa Adult Education Program has created an action template to help other districts evaluate what actions they can take to help save their adult education programs. This easy to follow document contains ideas for legal, political, and financial action schools can take at the federal, state and local levels. Access the template below.

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Save Adult Education Action Template - June 2010

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Vallejo Adult School's Family Literacy Fair

On November 7, 2009, the Vallejo Adult School hosted its first annual Family Literacy Fair. Students of the adult school and families of English Language Learners in the Vallejo City Unified School District were invited to attend.