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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Budget Committee Chair Exposes Budget Myths from California Assembly Access on Vimeo.

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NEW LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA BY THE CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION

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Beyond the Headlines - Ana Solomon - 5/16/10

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NEXT ADULT EDUCATION SUMMIT MEETING

Please join us to plan next steps at our Sustain Adult Education Summit Meeting:

Saturday -- March 20, 2010

9 AM - Noon
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
166 West Harder Road
Hayward, CA

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WHAT YOU CAN DO - DOWNLOAD AND SIGN PARCEL TAX INITIATIVE

  • PARCEL TAX INITIATIVE DOWNLOAD

HAYWARD ADULT SCHOOL TV COVERAGE

  • KGO TV (ABC) Hayward Adult Video
  • KTVU Hayward Adult Video
  • KPIX (CBS) Hayward Adult Video

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES RE SARAH GONZALES' RESIGNATION FROM THE HAYWARD SCHOOL BOARD

  • Daily Review Article

MOST RECENT LIST OF ADULT EDUCATION CUTS

  • Newport-Mesa Cuts ESL & More - 2/24/10
  • Madera Adult Ed Cuts - 2/21/10
  • Links to Adult Ed Cuts Info and Articles

Pages

  • HAYWARD SUMMIT PRESS RELEASE
  • SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Allie Gibson
  • Summit Student Speech - Linda Hague
  • HOSA - Health Occupations Students of America
  • FIRST TO WORST VIDEO - PARTS 1-7
  • PETITION TO SUSTAIN/SUPPORT HAYWARD ADULT SCHOOL

ADULT EDUCATION ACTION GROUPS

  • Hayward Area Adult Education Summit - February 20
  • Communities Organized to Save Adult School (COSAS) - West Contra Costa

PARENT ACTION GROUPS

  • SF PARENTS SITE COUNCIL SUMMIT ON THE BUDGET - FEBRUARY 20
  • SAN FRANCISCO PARENTS - FUNDING OUR FUTURE

CALIFORNIA TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION POSITION

  • Corporate Political Responsibility Act - Info
  • Repeal Corporate Tax Loopholes Act - Info
  • Support to Close Corporate Tax Loopholes
  • The Educated Guess
  • CTA Blog - Stand Up for Schools

POWERPOINTS FROM RECENT CONFERENCE

  • RESOURCES FROM 2010 ADULT EDUCATION ADMINISTRATORS CONFERENCE

2010 ADULT EDUCATION LEGISLATION

  • Mendoza Bill - Assembly Bill 1673

STATEWIDE INITIATIVES TO RESTORE RESOURCES FOR EDUCATION

  • Local Control of Local Classrooms - 55% Threshold for School Parcel Taxes
  • Cities-Counties-Schools Partnership
  • Initiative for Cities, Safety, & Transit (not schools)
  • 14 Words - California Majority Rule
  • Restore Majority Rule for Budget Passage
  • Californians for a State Constitutional Convention - Campaign Ended for Lack of Funds

UPDATES

CALIFORNIA ADULT SCHOOL PROGRAM IMPACT -- OVERVIEW OF PROGRAMS, GOALS AND PROMISING PRACTICES:

https://www.casas.org/home/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewFile&MapID=3192


UNDERSTANDING THE NEED FOR ADULT EDUCATION IN CALIFORNIA:

http://sites.google.com/site/savecaliforniaadulteducatiojn/


FIRST TO WORST VIDEO

  • ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ABOUT VIDEO

California Adult Education

California Adult Education
Bridges to Success for Over 150 Years

HOW DISTRICTS ARE COPING

  • SANTA CRUZ
  • MARTINEZ
  • MT. DIABLO UNIFIED
  • PLACENTIA-YORBA LINDA
  • NEWPORT-MESA
  • BERKELEY
  • SAN LEANDRO UNIFIED
  • MT. DIABLO UNIFIED
  • SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED
  • OAKLAND UNIFIED
  • HAYWARD UNIFIED
  • WEST CONTRA COSTA

Adult Ed -- Where We've Been

  • History of California Adult Education

DO YOUR HOMEWORK - RESEARCH

  • Play the California Budget Challenge
  • Direction of California Survey - March 2010
  • Californians & Education - Survey May 2009
  • Searching For Balance - Budget Overview
  • Funding California Schools: The Revenue Limit System
  • How Districts Spend their Funds
  • How California Schools Get Their Money
  • Educating California: Choices for the Future
  • Explanation of Education Spending - Defend Education Site
  • Education Data Reports (State-County-District)
  • LAO - 2010-2011 Education Budget
  • Overhauling a Broken System - Education Mandates (LAO Report February 2010)
  • Understanding 2010-2011 California Budget
  • California Budget Project
  • California Tax Sysem
  • Skills to Compete - Training for Middle Skills Jobs
  • Making Sense of the State's Financial Meltdown
  • California School Board Association - Links
  • Learn More California -- Link List re School Funding
  • Getting the Facts About School Funding
  • How Does California Compare? (2007)
  • California Rankings -
  • Ed Week - State Comparison Information
  • Every Child Prepared -- School Finance
  • California Data
  • EdSource 2009 Budget Actions
  • Now That We Have The Facts
  • Hidden Gap
  • PICO California
  • Bay Area Council - Education Committee
  • California Student Success Project
  • Every Child Prepared

POLITICAL SOLUTIONS - SACRAMENTO

  • Powerpoint on Federal Workforce Investment Act
  • Budget Myths Video - Noreen Evans
  • Loni Hancock Video - Progressive Alamedan
  • California Progress Report
  • Senator Simitian's Website
  • Simitian Bill - Lowering Tax Passing Rate to 55%
  • Budget Myths Video - Noreen Evans

Add YOUR Ideas Here

  • Find Your Adult School
  • Student Solutions
  • Support Staff Solutions
  • Teacher Solutions
  • Administrator Solutions
  • Policy/Political Solutions

ADULT ED EMPLOYEE GROUPS

  • CTA Adult Ed Newsletter - March 2009
  • California Teachers Assn. Adult Education Caucus
  • ESL Teachers
  • Administrators

POLITICAL BACKGROUND

  • California Budget Committee Reports - Assembly
  • CA PTA Parcel Tax Threshold Reduction
  • 200 Adult School Websites
  • Education Coalition -- Cuts Being Made
  • CTA Legal Action
  • Bay Area Adult Schools
  • Explanation of TIER 3 Consequences
  • California Dept. of Education - Adult Ed Program Info
  • Ed Source -- Explanation of School Funding
  • Additional Adult Ed Links
  • Public Policy Institute of California
  • Common Sense -- California
  • Center for the Continuing Study of the California Economy
  • California Forward

POLITICAL ACTION GROUPS

  • Cal Alumni - Save UC Higher Education Funding
  • Childrens Advocate
  • Courage Campaign
  • California Tax Reform Association
  • Cities-Counties-Schools Partnership
  • Restore Majority Rule
  • Repair California - Constitutional Convention
  • Children Now
  • Save California Adult Education
  • California Forward
  • Ed Voice
  • California Tomorrow
  • Campaign for Quality Education
  • Californians for Justice

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Blog Archive

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      • Cuts taking toll on West Contra Costa's adult educ...
      • Adult school, 200 jobs on block in Hayward district
      • KGO (ABC) - Lyanne Melendez Report
      • CBS - Ann Notarangelo Report
      • BUDGET UPDATE
      • WAYS TO FIND $18 MILLION IN HAYWARD
      • Powerpoint from Hayward Sustainability Summit
      • ADULT ED BUDGET CUTS - MOST CURRENT INFO
      • Budget Committee Chair Exposes Budget Myths from C...
      • California Forward's Plan
      • California Constitutional Convention Push fizzles
      • CTA TAKES POSITION AGAINST CORPORATE LOOPHOLES
      • ABC Video re Parcel Tax Initiative
      • CALIFORNIANS FOR IMPROVED SCHOOL FUNDING
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Madeline Kronenberg
Madeline Kronenberg retired in 2010 from the staff at Hayward Adult School after teaching there since 1980 after a successful 15 year career in administrative support serving in the federal government and corporate law firms. Ms. Kronenberg served as the Legal Secretarial Studies Program instructor at Hayward Adult School for over thirty years. During that time she also taught word processing and computer classes. In 1998 she began the Customer Service Certificate program. In 2003 she was awarded the State “Teacher of Excellence Award” by the California Council for Adult Education. Over the years, she has been active in the West Contra Costa Unified School District – where she served in numerous capacities as a parent volunteer – holding several PTA officer and school-wide elected positions at both Portola Middle School and El Cerrito High School from 1991 through 2006. Ms.Kronenberg currently serves on the West Contra Costa Unified School District School Board – elected in 2006 for a four year term. Ms. Kronenberg has five grown children and is married to Berkeley estate planning attorney Hale Kronenberg.
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