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The CDE, through the State Board of Education (SBE), adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in 2010. In March 2013, the CDE adopted the College and Career Readiness Standards (CCRS). In March 2014, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction announced the Standards for Career Ready Practice. These standards describe the fundamental knowledge and skills that students need to prepare for transition to postsecondary education, career training, or the workforce. The Standards for Career Ready Practice are taught and reinforced in all career exploration and preparation programs or integrated into core curriculum, with increasingly higher levels of complexity and expectation as a student advances through a program of study.

The CDE adult education office has aligned its content standards to the state-adopted challenging academics of CCSS and CCRS. The California adult education high school diploma meets the same standards as required for the K–12 high school diploma. The CDE has developed and implemented curriculum and assessment standards within ABE and ESL to meet the Educational Functioning Levels established by the NRS and to achieve the K–8 academic literacy objectives established by the state’s standards and frameworks.

Since 2014, the CDE has provided numerous professional development opportunities to the Title II local providers on the CCSS and CCRS. Thus, local adult education programs are aligned to CCSS and CCRS, providing standards–based contextualized curriculum, evidence-based instruction, and assessment focusing on the skills that enable learners to participate more fully within American society as citizens, workers, and family members.