1. Adult Education Preparing for FY20 April 11 & 12
Wyvonne Stevens-Carter, Acting Adult Education State Director

2. Agenda Welcome and Overview Current Policy Active Seat/Enrollment
Program Funding Formula
Application of Policy
FY20 Funding Rationale
Data Examples
Funding Impact Examples
Questions and Wrap-Up

3. Active Seat Enrollment
Policy manual
Each student enrolled occupies an active and unique student seat (i.e., a seat filled by one, and only one, unique and unduplicated student at a time). As students leave the program, seats will need to be refilled in order to remain active and maintain enrollment. With the exception of providers whose primary mission is to serve homeless, CALC and AECI program design must demonstrate a commitment to serving a minimum of 50 students on an ongoing basis.
If students don’t have assessments than they may not be correctly categorized as ABE or ESOL.

4. Active Seat Enrollment
Working definition for FY19
Active Seat – counts all students with attendance in any given month. A student who holds an active seat may or may not have an assessment recorded in the month counted.

5. Program Funding Formula
ACLS supports a range of $2,300 to $3,300 funding per active and unique student seat. A program can have seats that cost more than the threshold as long as the average is within the range. Programs may propose a budget above or below this range. For designs that require an average per seat cost over $3,300, programs must provide a compelling rationale to be considered. This may include costs related to a wide geographic service area or other factors (e.g., 20 hour intensive classes).
Services must be available during the academic year (i.e., September to June). Programs with designs that do not align with the academic calendar must provide a rationale for the structure. Additional programming (e.g., summer) is encouraged and can serve as the basis for a rationale for higher funding levels. (Notes: (1) The minimum seat requirement of 50 does not apply to summer programming. (2) IET and IELCE models are not held to this funding structure.)
Program funding is tied to enrollments. If funded enrollment levels are not maintained, the grant will be adjusted accordingly.

6. FY20 Funding Rationale
FY19 Average Monthly Enrollment Relative to Target
Impact
ESOL
ABE
>100%
3% increase to base funding (ESOL)
5% increase to base funding (ABE)
90-100% of funded seats
75-100% of funded seats
Level funded (FY19 base includes increase amount)
70-89%
60-74%
1-3% decrease to base funding
50-69%
50-59%
4-5% decrease to base funding
0-49%
Up to 20% decrease to base funding
FY20 conditional funding

7. FY19 Data Sample Agency Bold numbers indicate target met
Funded Seats
Minimum Enrollment
September
October
November
December
January
ABE avg.
ESOL avg.
ABE
ESOL
Delta Parker Public Schools
119
215 89
194 97
302
101
316
105
313
108
321
111
317
88%
146%
Academic Learning Center 95
250 71
225 63
122 93
139 74
150
75%
51%
International Education Center 68
123 51 28 23 31 54 29 70 24 34
41%
47%
Charter Town Learning Center 60 37 26 44 59 62 20
74%
Hope House 48 45 36 41 56
69%
118%
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ABE & ESOL programs
Good, Bad, Ugly
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Bold numbers indicate target met
Red numbers indicate below allowable range

8. Application to FY20 Grant amounts
Agency
Funded Seats
Cost per seat
ABE $
ESOL $
FY19
Funding*
FY20
ABE
ESOL
Delta Parker Public Schools
119
88%
215
146%
$ ,229
$265,251
$493,612
$744,606
$758,863
Academic Learning Center 95
75%
250
51%
$ ,822
$268,090
$670,225
$974,693
$938,315
International Education Center 68
41%
123
47%
$ ,346
$127,622
$230,846
$368,000
$358,469
Charter Town Learning Center
74% 60
$ ,442
$164,395
$131,868
$312,526
$296,263
Hope House 48
69% 45
118%
$ ,615
$123,010
$121,205
$243,195
$244,215
* Does not include IET/IELCE and Outstation funding

9. FY20 Anticipated changes
Assessments and missing reportable data must be entered
Enrollment and MSG will be assessed and determine any proposed changes for FY21

10. FY20 Funding Opportunities and Timelines (Building Capacity)
FY20 Continuation Applications – CALC/AECI, PIV, DL, Transitions, Workplace Education, SABES PD
New ABE/ESOL RFP
2 million + for new programs and additional seats in current programs
New IET/IELCE RFP
500K for new IET/IELCE programs statewide
500K for Berkshire, Bristol and Metro North
New Workplace Education RFP
450K