Whereas adult basic education (ABE) and providing instruction in English as a second language (ESL) are essential and important functions of California Community Colleges, and
Whereas the providing of ABE and ESL has placed community colleges and secondary school districts in a competitive situation in providing such education, and
Whereas the Commission on Innovation report Choosing the Future: An Action Agenda for Community Colleges in Recommendation 1, Strategy 5, states, "Undertake a major review of the State's Adult Basic Education and ESL programs,"
Resolved that the Academic Senate direct the Executive Committee to prepare a position paper on the role of community colleges in providing noncredit education in the nine program apportionment funding categories.