• Why Adult Students Enroll
• Florida Fast Facts for Adult Education
• Return on Investment for Adult Education
• Second Chance, Willing Workers

2012-13 Initial House and Senate Budget Allocations

to Attend Adult Education Programs for Credit Recovery.

No Funding for Co-Enrolled = Road Block to Higher Education

If high school students are faced with this Road Block, they risk:

• Not graduate on time
• Dropping out of high school
• Stuck in dead end jobs, with low wages
• Life of poverty
• Being a burden on society and social programs/services

Give parents and students this educational choice… Co-enrollment.

Give these students the green light to keep GOING…. 

Give high school students who are behind in credits needed to graduate on time, the choice to enroll in adult education programs for the purpose of credit recovery.

This is a choice that willing students want. 

They want:

• To complete high school
• To continue their education
• To have the opportunity to attend post-secondary, career or tech education
• To have the skills and educational levels to earn a family-living wage

Don’t put up a Road Block for over 60,000 Florida high school students.

Give them the choice to attend adult education credit recovery programs.

Help these high school students get back on track.

Three-fourths of Florida’s high school students who were co-enrolled in adult education programs remained in school or graduated.

One third of recent Florida high school dropouts served by adult education, returned to high school or obtained a high school credential. (OPPAGA)

Currently 19% of Floridians do not have a high school diploma or GED.  Do we want to add to those numbers?

(2010 US Census)

If you have some high school education but no diploma, the unemployment rate is 14.6% and the median earning potential is $23,608.

Compared to an Associate’s degree, the unemployment rate is 6.8%, and the median earning potential is $39,572.

High School dropouts were more than twice as likely to be living in poverty as high school graduates.

(U.S. Census)

Seventy-four percent of dropouts spend one or more years in poverty between the ages of 25-75.

Two in five youths between the ages of 16 and 24 who drop out of school receive public assistance.

Educational attainment not only impacts a worker’s ability to find a quality job, but it also impacts the state’s ability to attract and generate high quality jobs.

Graduation rates and educational attainment is also a key consideration for businesses seeking to expand or locate in the state. 

A low Florida high school graduation rate would be a deterrent for bringing in quality businesses to our state.

We need every Florida student to be prepared to enter post secondary education, be prepared to earn a family-living wage, and be prepared to contribute to their community.

Give them this choice to succeed.   Give them the opportunity to co-enroll for credit recovery.

No Road Blocks to a High School Diploma.

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* The naturalization test
* The naturalization process
* How to prepare students for the naturalization interview and test
* Exploring listening skills in the adult citizenship classroom
Start Date: 2012/02/10
End Date: 2012/02/29

In an effort to address the problem of the lack of skilled workers in the state, ACE of Florida is launching -  Second Chance Initiative.  The goal of Second Chance Initiative is to bring together business leaders, policy makers and our educators to increase awareness of the need to improve the skills of Florida’s workforce.  Help us get the message out…..To learn more about the program and how you can become involved  and Click Here download Second Chance Initiative flyer.

HB 331  Career and Adult Education

By Representative Jimmy Patronis, Panama City

No companion bill in the Senate yet

Requires Next Generation Sunshine State Standards to include financial literacy in core curricular content of economics; replaces the term “vocational-preparatory” instruction with term “applied academics for adult education” instruction with respect to adult general education; requires students entering adult general education programs to complete “Action Steps to Employment” activities.   http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0331__.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0331&Session=2012

HB 407  Funds for Operation of Workforce Education Programs

By Representative Ana Rivas Logan, Miami-Dade

(Similar Bill in Senate – see below)

Funds for Operation of Workforce Education Programs:  Deletes restriction on funding for student coenrolled in K-12 education program and adult education program: provides that student who is coenrolled may be reported for purposes of funding under certain circumstances.   http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0407__.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0407&Session=2012

Similar bill filed in the Senate – SB 662  Funding for Workforce Education Programs: 

By Senator Oscar Braynon, Miami-Dade

Providing that a student who is coenrolled in a K-12 education program and an adult education program may be reported for purposes of funding in an adult education program; providing that a student who is coenrolled in core program areas for credit recovery or dropout prevention purposes may be reported for funding for up to two courses per student, etc.   http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0662/BillText/Filed/PDF

 Higher Education Coordinating Council

The 2011 Legislature passed  HB 7151 that directs the Higher Education Coordinating Council to make recommendations relating to the primary core missions of public and nonpublic postsecondary education institutions.

To view the 2^nd draft report from the Higher Education Coordinating Council click the link: http://floridahighereducation.org/_doc/HECC-WorkgroupReport-Recommendations-2nd-draft.pdf

Members of the HECC:

Frank Brogan, Chancellor, State University System

Marshall Criser, III, Business representative, President AT&T

Samuel Ferguson, Executive Director, Commission for Independent Education

Dr. Will Holcombe, Chancellor, Florida Colleges System

Dr. Ed Moore, Independent Colleges and Universities

Jon Moyle, Business representative, Retired attorney

Gerard Robinson, Commissioner, Florida Department of Education

Still have questions?  Contact the ACE office at (850) 222-2233.