Q&A - Other/General (Students) - California Adult Education Program

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AEP Questions and Answers

This is a collection of questions that are most frequently asked of the AEP Office. They are organized by topic area and will be updated as needed.

Other/General

Other/General (2)

Q1 An educational entity would like to petition for membership to our consortium given their association with John Muir Charter Schools. Do they qualify? On the one hand, they are an LEA. On the other, they are based out of Nevada. In sum, they operate within our service area but their base of operation is out of state.

Charter schools do not meet the education code requirements for CAEP consortium membership and therefore CDEs legal opinion on charter schools – consortia are not required to allow charter schools to join the consortium.

Q33 As a consultant or even a full-time consortium director, no one has the authority to look at agency fiscal documents . . . We can't audit.

Per the guidance, when a district submits their expenses it has been reviewed and approved by the district business/ accounting office. The consortium lead only checks to see if the expenses are in line with the overall consortium plan and the district annual plan. We do not want consortium leads responsible for approving or reviewing expenditures as that opens them up to all kinds of responsibility. But in other consortia, member share their expenses with each other and discuss openly what they are spending their funds on.