Monica Ratliff at July 2, 2013 LAUSD Board of Education meeting:

Steve Zimmer at July 2, 2103 LAUSD Board of Education meeting:

United Adult Student reps Gilberta Gonzalez & Valdemar Morales speak out against cuts to Adult & Career Ed classes at the LAUSD Board of Education. They waited 12+ hours to speak.

United Adult Student representative, Valdemar Morales, has met with Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti, advocating for Adult & Career Education. He is quoted in today's LA OPINION newspaper article:

Thank you to all the courageous students who spoke from their hearts about the importance of Adult & Career Education programs!  Stop the cuts!  Here's the video:

We congratulate Monica Ratliff, a 5th Grade Teacher, who won a historic upset victory against a corporate-reform political machine candidate in the election for LAUSD School Board District 6 (North & East Valley).  Adult Education showed strong support of Ms. Ratliff in her campaign.

Here is an article from LA OPINION newspaper from last week which shows her at a fundraiser on a rooftop in Downtown LA, overlooking LAUSD headquarters in the background.  Several Adult Education teachers and students were present at this event, which was the first fundraiser of her General Election campaign. 

We look forward to working together with Ms. Ratliff in the future as we rebuild Adult & Career Education in LAUSD.

May 16 press conference at LAUSD Beaudry (Downtown LA). Student speakers Valdemar Morales, Gilberta Gonzalez and Teacher Juan Noguera blast the cuts being made to Summer School, Career & Technical Education, Saturday programs for 2013-14

Adult Education & CTE students presente! We need dedicated funding! #AdultEd #Literacy #LAUSD #DTLA #CApolicy twitter.com/AdultStudentsL…

— UnitedAdultStudents (@AdultStudentsLA) May 15, 2013

Why are Adult Schools slashing their Fall 2013 course offerings?  Here are just a few examples:

• Evans CAS is cutting its whole Saturday program; its Certified Medical Assistant program is completely cut and 26 teachers have lost all or part of their hours. 
• Harbor Occupational is cutting its entire evening program. 
• West Valley OC is cutting 1 out of every 4 teachers;
• East L.A. Occupational has been told they're cutting 30%; many CTE teachers, if they aren't being laid off, are having their hours reduced.

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Gilberta Gonzalez speaking at CCAE 2013 Conference in Sacramento. She is introduced here by CCAE Conference co-Chair, Branka Marceta.  Holding the 10,000 petition signatures is Teacher & Evans Adult School graduate Juan Noguera:

LAUSD threatens to cut 25% of Adult Ed program!

We're asking everyone, Adult Students, Teachers, School Staff and their family, friends and neighbors to call (213) 986-2492 to speak with the LAUSD School Board Member that represents your school.

It's super easy, just 3 steps.

1. CALL (213) 986-2492
2. CHOOSE ENGLISH OR SPANISH
3. SELECT YOUR SCHOOL FROM THE LIST

Then you will hear talking points and be transferred to the school board member's office so you can tell them that we don't want anymore cuts to Adult Education.  We don't want anymore cuts to Career & Technical Education. We want summer school for Adults.

We know the money is there!  Proposition 30 passed and provided funding.  Now in Sacramento there is a $4 Billion surplus.  We need LAUSD School Board Members to prioritize their spending.

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