[AAACE-NLA] TX Dept of Education closes adult education office

[AndresMuro@aol.com]

You may or may not know that the Texas department of Education, known as TEA or Texas Education Agency closed its adult education office. Last Thursday all ABE staff were told to vacate their offices by the follwing day at noon. Aparently nobody anticipated this and were in shock. The reason for the closure, as I understand it, is because of a reduction in force type reorganization. The funcitons of the ABE office of TEA will be moved form Austin to Houston. State ABE recipients have been told that everything will continue to operate smoothly and that our awards are on the way. 

I am sure that the other state directors must know about this. My questions are, particularly for other State Directors: How do you all feel about this? What do you think that the consequences may be for Adult Ed? Do you fear similar reorganizations in your state?

Andres  


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