CDE Announcements Archive

2024–25 Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (WIOA, Title II: AEFLA)

Dear Adult Education Administrator:

Here are a few important activities to share with you. This email contains the following information:

1. Grant Award Notifications and Grant Award Letter
2. 2024–25 Program and Accountability Requirements
3. Budget Narrative Updates
4. AEO Office Hours for August and September
5. Register for New Administrator Orientation

The Adult Education Office (AEO) would like to remind agencies that Grant Award Notifications (GAN) are available electronically through the Adult Education Online Application and Reporting website (reporting site). If you do not see a file loaded in your account and your agency is unaware of any pending issues, please reach out to our office for additional information.

In addition to accessing your GAN, please take a moment to download the Grant Award Letter from Dr. Zachry. The letter dated July 2024 provides additional information regarding the structure of payment points, corresponding values, and subsidies issues this program year.

GANs are to be returned through the reporting site by August 31, 2024. Drop the original hard copy in the mail to the California Department of Education (CDE). We are processing GAN on a regular basis and appreciate all the files that have been returned so far. Thank you!

The Program and Accountability Requirements, including due dates for upcoming deliverables, is expected to post later this week on the WIOA, Title II: AEFLA Grant Information 2024–25 web page. Please note, the Integrated English Literacy and Civics Education (IELCE) Report and Plan has been moved to March. This change is intended to reduce the number of deliverables due in April and avoid competing with the Continuous Improvement Plan. Please review the requirements and support pages for full program year details.

Over the past few years, the AEO has noticed an increase in expenditure errors discovered during monitoring visits. Often, a more detailed Budget Narrative, connecting the Resource Code to the Object Code expenditures, would have exposed the error during the claim review process. Updates to the Budget Narrative in the reporting site were made to capture this Resource Code specification, and to avoid errors resulting in fund recovery in the future.

The 2024–25 Budget now requires the user to enter narrative details by Object Code and Resource Code. Previously entries were made only by Object Code. The budget application is set up to accept four Object Codes for each of the four Resource Codes, depending on where dollar amounts have been budgeted. Training resources will be updated soon to reflect these changes.

The AEO will hold virtual drop-in Office Hours on August 20 and 27 from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. No registration is required. The link for the August sessions will be sent out the morning of August 20 and again the morning of August 27 to WIOA grantees.

Staff will be available to address general programmatic and fiscal questions for WIOA and the California Adult Education Program (CAEP); including the Program and Accountability Requirements and supporting documents. Additionally, we will be able to screen share the budget application to address any questions regarding the updated budget narrative section or any general budget questions.

The 2024 New Administrator Orientation (NAO) registration is open. This direct link will open the registration page on the CA Professional Development calendar.

If you have any questions regarding this message, please reach out to the AEO by telephone at 916-322-2175 or by email at adulteducation@cde.ca.gov.

Sincerely,

Carolyn Zachry, Ed.D.
Education Administrator and State Director
Adult Education Office
California Department of Education
916-322-2175
adulteducation@cde.ca.gov