The School District of Palm Beach County

Department of Adult and Community Education

                                                        Adult Education, skills for life . . . at work, at home, and in the community
 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to Adult and Community Education

Adult and Community Education classes provide opportunities to improve your skills for life at home, at work and in the community. Community schools and sites offer a variety of educational services for students of all ages and stages of life.

pc-girl slidesThe Adult Education programs are listed to the left. Whether seeking an opportunity to further your career or to enlighten your life, the classes provide quality services, programs, training and instruction to meet your needs.

Community Education has something for everyone! They meet a wide variety of interests such as classes in art, cooking, crafts, dance, fitness, foreign languages and computers. Click on the Community Educator graphic on the left for details.

Adult and Community Education provides the resources and knowledge to enhance your life, at a time in which knowledge is a powerful thing.

Adult Education and Continuing Education Courses

For a comprehensive list of all Adult Education and Continuing Education Courses offered in your neighborhood community school, please visit www.pbeducator.org.

Adult and Community Education Program
Statistics for 2006-07 School Year

Did you know that:

  • there were 5,482 enrollments in high school credit courses enabling students to make up credits needed for graduation?

  • $152,000 was awarded to 103 schools to provide over 6,180 hours of instruction through the K-12 Support Program to offer FCAT tutoring and parenting education?

  • 24,124 adult students enrolled in ABE, GED and ESOL courses?

  • 1,516 Florida High School diplomas were earned through the GED testing program?

  • over 10,000 community education courses were taken by over 40,000 students at 25 community schools?

  • over 2,300 families have been served by Family Literacy programs over the past 14 years?

  • the first Pre-K student registered in the Parent Power Family Literacy program in 1994 is now a freshman at the University of South Florida?

Awards of Excellence - 2007

Click on the link above to see the 2007 Awards of Excellence for Adult and Community Education in Palm Beach County.

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FLDOE
TechNet
PBC Literacy Coalition
ACE of Florida
 

 

 

   

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