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Donna Frankel All Messages By This Member #174 Having taught through Adult Ed in Sunnyvale, Cupertino and Santa Clara, plus identical courses for 4 CA. Community Colleges, I am always looking for where our two groups might join forces for better pay, improved working conditions and benefits.? Are you all aware that: 2 bills are going to be discussed April 11 and 18 in the state legislature. AB260 has to do with adult and non credit courses that if it?passes in the CA. Community Colleges, will mean fairer pay.? At present community ed and non credit teachers must teach 1/3 more hours for half the pay of a full time teacher.? This will mean teachers will be paid for all worked hours.?? While there is a cost to the state for this, I am hopeful that our government will do what is right and treat all teachers equally. I also want to invite you to a free part time faculty seminar still in the planning stages, entitled "The One Tier System" at 1pm on Friday, April 28, 2023.? More information to follow. Presently there is a 3 tier system in the CA. Community Colleges. 1) First tier is full time faculty, when not teaching overloads as part time faculty. 2) Second tier is part time faculty--who are only allowed to teach 67% of a full time load at any one district, and are trying to move towards parity which is set at 85% of a full time salary.? In actual fact, it is about half the salary, since part time faculty are not paid prep time, don't often get paid for non teaching work (committees, governance, curriculum, etc. etc.) and have limited benefits--certainly no sabbaticals, dental, vision, insurance, etc. etc. 3) Community Ed, non credit-where classes are loaded at .3 instead of part time labs at .5, regular courses at 1.0 plus teach 1/3 more hours per term than the 2 other tiers.? In other words the pay is poor with nearly no benefits, only some get paid office half hours, etc. The one tier system will put all faculty on the same tier--true equal pay for equal work. I am on the committee pushing for this major change after seeing 40 years of abuse of faculty (nearly all part time) most especially in non credit, community ed. BTW, many non credit CA. Community College teachers also teach or have taught for adult ed.? We are fighting the same fight folks and we all know our students rely on us and our classes. Donna Frankel The Chair of the Higher Ed Committee is Mike Fong; you can contact him through his website here:? You can contact all the members of the Committee through this link:? Joan On 4/1/2023 7:48 AM, John Martin wrote: FYI...(from FACCC).... Assembly Higher Education will be hearing several community college bills on??and?.? Our support for these bills will be instrumental to whether they pass in the policy committee. ? While we determine whether or not call-in testimony will be available, we're asking our members and California community college advocates to rally faculty and students to attend this hearing in person to provide "me too" support on the following FACCC-sponsored and supported bills. Community colleges: part-time faculty: office hours Community colleges: part-time employees On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 10:04?AM Cynthia Eagleton via <zimzamjamz=[email protected]> wrote: Good news, OAEF! The SF Village is going to write a letter of support for regaining state funding for Older Adults Adult Education classes.? They will also post info about OAEF in their newsletter.? If SF Village members speak up on OAEF, it could be very helpful.? Phil Ting is the Assembly Member representing the western side of SF. He is chair of the Assembly Budget Committee and a seasoned, well-connected legislator.? In my experience, reaching out to SF legislators is complicated because Adult Ed in SF is provided by CCSF and while there have been a lot of cuts to Older Adults classes within the CCSF system, the actual CCSF OA program still abides --- unlike in Adult Schools where it's been mostly completely wiped out. And in general, as bad as it may be at CCSF, all community colleges essentially have double funding streams for Adult Education (they have CAEP plus their CC funds) -- versus Adult Schools which just have the funds provided thru the Regional Consortium (the CAEP funds).? Back when I was doing more advocacy for an increase in funding for Adult Ed, when I reached out to SF legislators or aides, they didn't generally already know or grasp what was happening in Adult Ed, unlike legislators in other areas --- for example, San Mateo, Riverside, parts of LA.? If SF leg push for the reinstatement of state funding for Older Adults Adult Ed classes, I think it could be really helpful.? For the record, I live in the Southeast corner of SF. Phil Ting doesn't rep my area. I'm repped by State Senator Scott Weiner and Assember Member Matt Hainey.? *Total aside:?* CDE Superintendent Tony Thurmond is pushing a required financial literacy class for high schoolers. I'm all for this. What chaps my hide is that along with Adult Ed classes for Older Adults, Parent Ed, Home Ec (Life Skills), FINANCIAL LITERACY was defunded in the restructuring of Adult Ed.? Because you know... when you have a global market and housing collapse and many people have been swindled thru BS mortgage programs and all kinds of other crap...? the right move is to eliminate free, accessible financial literacy classes for Adults.?? Sigh...? Okay... onwards with the good news and the work to create more!? Cynthia Cynthia Eagleton On Wednesday, March 29, 2023 at 11:45:39 AM PDT, Cynthia Eagleton via <zimzamjamz=[email protected]> wrote: Hi OAEF! Reporting in that I reached out to the SF Village to ask if they would like to sign on to our letter asking electeds to reinstate funding for OA classes in CA. I also invited my contact to our next zoom meeting.? .? CCSF folks, are you familiar with the SF Village? I highly recommend that you reach out to them specifically around support for CCSF OA programs!? Sincerely,? Cynthia

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