Florida's adult general education programs are operated by school districts and community colleges. Both community colleges and school districts improved their performance in terms of the number of literacy completion points earned by students between 1998-99 and 1999-00. Yet, school district placement rates are low for adult basic and English for Speakers of Other Languages programs.
School districts and community colleges have acted to improve their adult general education programs, including strengthening student retention efforts. Some of the apparent performance improvement could reflect better record keeping in tracking student progress.
Although the state's performance funding initiative is a key aspect of improving student outcomes, department guidelines for assessing student progress leading to outcomes are not being consistently applied by the institutions.
The lack of a clear statewide residency requirement and statewide procedures for documenting residency can lead to the state providing free education programs to non-residents who are required to pay the full cost of instruction.

Summary of OPPAGA Reports Examining Workforce Education Programs and Legislative Options
Report 11-07 February 2011
Completing Adult Education Programs Improves Students' Employability, But Program Completion Rates are Low
Report 11-04 January 2011
Profile of Florida's Public Workforce Education Program Providers by Service Area
Report 10-65 December 2010
Colleges Perform Slightly Better Than School Districts in Career Education; Neither Clearly Outperforms in Adult Education
Report 10-63 December 2010

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