Adult education students at Huntington Beach Adult School in the Huntington Beach Union School District
Credit: Jorge Van Dyck / Huntington Beach Adult School
There’s an incredibly important program that takes place in the back lots of a number of K-12 school sites.
Adult Education serves students aged 18 and over in English as a second language (ESL), citizenship, adult basic education/adult secondary education (diploma and GED), and short-term career technical Education (CTE).
But their services to the schools they are housed in and the surrounding community are so much more. In fact, adult education staff and supporters have been espousing the benefits associated with Community Schools before the term became popular. They are that link schools don’t know they have to make sure parents know about and attend their District English Language Advisory Committee to help plan how funds will be used to support…
