Providing Educational Opportunities to Adults in California

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Providing Educational Opportunities to Adults in
California

• Presentation to the Assembly Select Committee on
  Adult Education
• July 29, 2003
• Patricia L. de Cos
• California Research Bureau

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Overview

• Funding Sources
• Enrollment Data
• Demographic Data of Students
• Student Outcomes for Adult Schools
• Federal Title II, WIA Program
• Summary

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Distribution of Major Funding Sources

• Community College Non-Credit Programs - (Federal
  and State)
• Adult Schools - (Federal and State)
• Comparison of Community College and Adult Schools
• Federal Workforce Investment Act, Title II

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Combined Enrollment Data

• Comparisons of Total Enrollment of Students at
  Non-Credit Programs and Adult Schools
• Comparisons of Total Enrollment by Instructional
  Program

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Demographic Data of Students Served by Non-Credit
Programs

• Gender
• Age
• Ethnicity
• Citizenship Status
• Education Status

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Demographic Data of Students Served by Adult
Schools

• Gender
• Ethnicity
• Age
• Highest Degree Earned
• Years of Schooling

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Student Outcomes for Adult Schools by
Instructional Program

• Average Hours of Instruction
• Adult Learner Progress
• Work Outcomes
• Educational Outcomes
• Reasons for Early Exit

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Federal Title II WIA Program

• Information Regarding Funded Providers
• Enrollment Data

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Summary

• Programs reflect the diversity of communities in
  California, which is not reflected in statewide
  data
• Difficulty in achieving a state perspective for
  funding and data
• Inconsistency of data collection and resulting
  usefulness of data
• Determination of need is different for
  instructional programs, depending whether they
  are literacy based or have a workforce focus,
  or serve a community/life-long learning
  orientation
• Some issues are common to both segments
• Other issues are similar but the particulars are
  different for each segment
• Some issues affect some locales and not others