RE: Adult Education

In response to Charles Ratliff's statement on item 38, that 

"The goal with this recommendation is to eliminate the artificial separation in status of professional educators providing essentialy the same services to a similar population of students and, as a consequence, remove some of the obstacles to alignment and articulation of courses for adult students who choose to continue their education." 

I'd like to relate an example of just why the obstacles to alignment and articulation of courses for adult students could actually fair better with the Adult Ed, ROP, & CBO systems.

While working on a grant project designed to train low- income adults to become Knowledge Administrators, sponsored by our local Economic Development Corporation, our adult school collaborated with the community college, ROP and our local Onr Stop. During the course of planning which agencies would take on which courses needed for training a Knowledge Administrator, a particular course had to be designed for a "new" set of skills, as none of the agencies had a course of the nature needed. When the community college was asked if it could design one, the answer was yes, but course approval would have to go before their board of governors, and could take as long a 3 years to be approved. The adult school was able to design and implement the needed course within a few months. 

Consider this- Adult Ed. is a less bureaucratic, and certainly a much more cost-effective administrative body.