CDE Announcements Archive

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

Dear Adult Educator:

California continues to face challenges with weather, fire, and other demanding situations. The Adult Education Office (AEO) remains committed to providing support and assistance through the long journey of fire recovery for both administrators, students, and their families. We encourage impacted agencies to reach out to us for assistance navigating the road ahead, or with identifying resources and support that may be needed.

This message includes the following topics:

• 2025–26 Program Year Inquiry
• Second Quarter Deliverables
• March 31 Deliverables; IELCE Report and Plan
• ECR Help Desk
• Continuous Improvement Plan
• Grant Award Amendments
• Occupational Information Network (O*NET) Project
• Financial Literacy Webinar for Adult Educators
• Steps to College

The 2025–26 Program Year Inquiry is due Friday, January 31, 2025. Access this one-time inquiry from the Survey web page of the reporting site. The estimated time to complete this inquiry is less than five minutes.

It is recommended that the Program Year Inquiry be completed by your agency’s Adult Education Director. We appreciate all the responses received to date as this information helps us with planning. Failure to respond timely could result in a delayed ability to spend funds for next year until an amendment is processed.

Expenditure Claim Reports (ECR) for the second quarter are due to the California Department of Education by Friday, January 31, 2025.

All second quarter data deliverables, surveys, and training are also due Friday, January 31, 2025. For further information, please visit the WIOA, Title II: AEFLA Grant Information 2024–25 web page.

Three deliverables are due March 31, 2025, including the Integrated English Literacy and Civics Education (IELCE) Report and Plan, which has an earlier due date this year, and the Program Implementation Survey.

Additionally, March 31, 2025, is the last day for K–12 and County Offices of Education to submit Course Approvals Revisions for Program Year (PY) 2024–25.

For further information, please visit the WIOA, Title II: AEFLA Grant Information 2024–25 web page.

The final ECR Help Desk for this quarter will be held on Tuesday, January 28, 2025, at 1:00 p.m. The focus of the Help Desk is to answer questions that may impede the completion of a claim or to aid with the ECR application within the reporting site. The ECR Help Desk will close at 1:30 p.m. or earlier if all ECR-related questions have been answered.

Online resources continue to be added for the Continuous Improvement Plan (CIP) which is due Wednesday, April 30, 2025. The Introduction and Overview of the CIP recording of the recent webinar is now available.

Agencies are strongly encouraged to start preparations early and to take advantage of additional support activities while preparing their CIP. Access the CIP Plan Guide (Word Document) and resources from the CIP web page of the reporting site. By now it is expected that all agencies should have accessed the CIP web page and reviewed the Word Document.

Grant Award Amendments are due Friday, February 28, 2025, for agencies that recently received a revised Grant Award Notification (GAN). A signed GAN will be required to access the third quarter expenditure claim. Please review the Grant Award Amendment web page with the reporting site for complete information.

The Occupational Information Network (O*NET) is seeking instructors of Adult Basic Education (ABE), Adult Secondary Education (ASE), and English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESL/ESOL) to provide input into job descriptions for these occupations.

More information about O*NET can be found here: www.onetonline.org and www.onetcenter.org and in our communication dated January 13, 2025.

Financial Literacy Across the Adult Education Spectrum

This free workshop, offered by the Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center, explores the many needs for integrating financial literacy into instruction for all learners. For more information, see our recent communication dated January 13, 2025.

Steps to College 2025, the largest bilingual & binational university fair in Northern California opens at nine a.m. on Saturday, February 8, 2025, at Cal Expo, Buildings A and B, 1600 Exposition Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95815. For more information visit: https://stepstocollegesac.org.

If you have any questions, please contact the AEO 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