Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 28 - EDUCATION
Part CXXIX - Bulletin123-Adult Education Content Standards
Chapter 1 - General Provisions
Section CXXIX-101 - Introduction
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. The Workforce Investment Act of 1998, Title II, authorizes adult education in Louisiana. The Adult Education program provides instruction to adults who are 16 years of age and older, not enrolled in the K-12 system, and have less than a high school education. The purposes of adult education programs are to assist adults to:
B. The standards were designed to raise accountability levels among adult education programs and ensure that similar concepts are taught at an educational functioning level throughout the state. The intent of the content standards document is to provide a tool that will ease the processes of developing curriculum frameworks and planning instruction for adult educators throughout Louisiana.
C. The Louisiana Adult Education Content Standards may be used by programs in providing Adult Basic Education (ABE) and Adult Secondary Education (ASE) instruction to adults. These educational functioning levels (EFLs) of adults were considered in developing the standards. The current educational functioning levels, as approved by the National Reporting System for Adult Education, include:
Educational Functioning Level |
Grade Level Equivalent |
Beginning ABE Literacy |
0 to 1.9 |
Beginning Basic Education |
2 to 3.9 |
Low-Intermediate Basic Education |
4 to 5.9 |
High-Intermediate Basic Education |
6 to 8.9 |
Educational Functioning Level |
Grade Level Equivalent |
Low Adult Secondary Education |
9 to 10.9 |
High Adult Secondary Education |
11 to 12.9 |
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:6(A)(10).