In a portable classroom on the Santa Clara Adult Education campus, Abraham Leza prepares to teach his weekly class just after the Friday lunch hour. He pulls on a black T-shirt embossed with a drawing of a boombox before placing a gold chain around his neck. He makes his way to the head of the classroom, where atop a desk sits a turntable plugged into a laptop, and begins "scratching" out a beat as students file in.
Hosted by the Columbia Neighborhood Center with Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, the program is open to everyone; proof of income is not required. New families must register on the day of distribution. The distribution uses a farmers' market model; participants park and walk in and should bring reusable bags for produce and a cart for dry and canned goods, eggs, milk and more. Each family will receive about 100 lbs. of food.
With waiting lists for her classes, everyone from Roz Purcell to The Smashing Pumpkins wants to learn a cúpla focal from Irish teacher Mollie Guidera. She tallks about spreading her grá for the language, the trauma how it was taught inflicted on some and her adults-only Irish college If there was ever somebody who embodies the idea of eating, sleeping and breathing a language, it would be Mollie Guidera.
To prepare our next generation of American workers, the Trump Administration is taking decisive action to streamline unnecessary bureaucracy and advance the skills needed to fill jobs of the future,
The Trump administration has frozen roughly $716 million intended for adult education programs, impacting funding for high school equivalency classes, ESL programs, and community colleges.
