Upcoming
Conferences
June 1, 2009
Fall 2009 CCCAOE ~ Call for Presentations due via email
Theme: Collaborative Innovations for Economic Recovery
Focus Topics:
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Leading the Way to Economic Recovery
→ Partnering with Local Workforce Investment Boards
→ Successful Ongoing Programs and Projects
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Leveraging Economic and Workforce Development Resources
→ Grants, grant writing, grant management, responsibilities
→ Opportunities for partnerships
Click here for proposal details and forms
Job Openings
Dean, CTE - Long Beach CC
Career Ladders Project
· Special Projects Director
· Sr. Program Associate
Manager, CTE Outreach (COE-Mt. Sac)
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CCCAOE Newsletter - May 2009
In This Issue
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IT AIN'T OVER YET . . .
President, Kim Schenk
Welcome to the fourth and final "CCCAOE E-News" of 2008-2009! Thanks to all of you who have shared your appreciation for this new, improved and "green" communication methodology. It has been a busy and productive Spring, as CCCAOE has continued to provide input and feedback on legislation and provide testimony at hearings in Sacramento on matters related to CTE and Economic Development. The news continues to worsen on the state budget front. (The final April tax revenues tally found the state's revenues $1.8 billion below projections. This is in addition to the $7.8 billion deficit projected by the Legislative Analyst's Office in March. Ouch.) If Propositions 1C, 1D and 1E don't pass, the deficit will be $15.4 billion, and this could increase if unemployment continues to climb and revenues remain sluggish.
The Governor's May Revise is expected May 28, after which the Legislature is certain to revisit the 18-month budget adopted in February. Any action by the legislature may occur during the summer, when many of us are taking a welcome rest from the rigors and frantic pace of the academic year. Please stay "connected" to activity in Sacramento and its potential impact on our colleges; it will be vitally important that we continue with personal connections to your legislators.
In other activity this Spring, CCCAOE has partnered with the California Workforce Association (CWA) and the Bay Area Community College Consortium to develop and fund a strategy to help the workforce and community college systems work effectively together to leverage ARRA funds to train and re-train the workforce. The collaborative project will support opportunities for partnerships with Workforce Investment Boards through dissemination of effective practice through regional meetings and collaborations, technical assistance, professional development events, and communication strategies.
The Fall 2009 CCCAOE conference in Long Beach will focus on these kinds of efforts, with the theme of: Collaborative Innovations for Economic Recovery. We look forward to learning, as always, of the remarkable good work that goes on day-by-day in our system as we serve our students and communities. Best wishes until we see you in Long Beach!
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REBUILDING THE WORKFORCE INFRASTRUCTURE:
WHAT WILL WE LEAVE BEHIND?
Virginia Hamilton, Executive Director
California Workforce Association
After 8 years of gloom and doom, and the loss of over 50 percent of the Workforce Investment Act funding in California, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) has provided a one-time infusion of almost double the amount of Workforce Investment Act (WIA) funding to the 49 California Workforce Investment Boards. In addition, there is over $1 billion in non-WIA program funds in ARRA for job training, with an expectation that local WIBs will help leverage these resources in their communities. In this period of heartbreaking unemployment, the workforce system has finally been given the resources to help get people back to work.
As well as the expectation that local WIBs will spend the ARRA funding quickly and wisely, there is further expectation on the part of the US Department of Labor that these funds will continue to transform the public workforce system. DOL's Training and Employment Guidance Letter 14-08 states:
As states and local areas plan how their One-Stop systems will make immediate use of the Recovery Act funds, the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) strongly encourages them to take an expansive view of how the funds can be integrated into transformational efforts to improve the effectiveness of the public workforce system. In this system, the needs of workers and employers are both important in developing thriving communities where all citizens succeed and businesses prosper. The system's implementation of the Recovery Act should yield not only increased services and training for workers in need, but also an invigorated, more innovative public workforce system capable of helping enable future economic growth and advancing shared prosperity for Americans.
There is good news for the CA Community Colleges. Click here to read more. . .
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HANDLING NEW FOUND SUCCESS
Jonathan Lightman, Executive Director~FACCC
Finding normalcy in politics is typically a futile exercise. There's an understanding that the legislative environs carry a "Kafka-esque" quality. Those seeking rationality are surely disappointed.
Sticking with the theme of literary motifs, an outsider might conclude that the rediscovered interest in career technical education (CTE) seems a bit Faustian in its construct. It's not that we made any deals with the devil or that there are even any good candidates for the devil in Sacramento (okay, maybe one or two). It's more a matter of being careful what you wish for because it may come true.
CTE is in a truly strange position of not only being courted, but absolutely coveted, by politicians of both parties. The problem is that as much as the policymakers want us to succeed they have no other choices than to cut our budgets. It feels a bit like being granted eternal youth alongside life imprisonment.
As with anything political we need to play the cards we've been dealt, not whine about the ones we wanted. So let's first take stock about what's working for us.
Senate President Pro-Tem Darrell Steinberg has launched an ambitious CTE agenda, anchored by SB 675, enacting the Clean Technology and Renewable Energy Job Training, Career Technical Education, and Dropout Prevention Act of 2010. This measure connects varying themes long known to CCCAOE members, that CTE opportunities, when crafted correctly with educators and businesses, can return people to work while reducing the high dropout rate.
SB 675 has already passed two Senate hearings, Click here to read more . . .
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FROM THE CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE
Ron Selge, Dean~Career And Technical Education Unit
Writing on May 1, 2009, we are on the brink of several potentially momentous events for Career Technical Education
- the May election,
- the June budget "Revise" from the Governor,
- a legislative season that is just starting to jell,
- negotiations for Perkins core measure performance targets and
- the start of ARRA (federal Stimulus) funds going into California's economy.
In partnership with CCCAOE, we will continue to monitor these activities and may well seek your assistance in shaping outcomes.
Regarding Perkins funding, we've been busy with several program features.
- It is our hope that program coordinators
Click here to read more . . .
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