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When CCAE was formed, there were six geographic areas or sections. However, the sections were quite different geographically in 1944 from the current day.
The six sections were:
1. Northern Section (Centered on the City of Sacramento)
2. Northern Coast Section (Centered on the City of Eureka)
3. Bay Section (Centered on the area around San Francisco Bay)
4. Central Section (Centered the area from Bakersfield to Fresno in the Central Valley)
5. Central Coast Section (Centered on the City of Monterey)
6. Southern Section (all of what is now the Southern, LA Metro and South Coast Sections).
As you can see, there have been many changes in the structure of CCAE over the years. Neither the Northern Coast nor Central Coast Section had enough adult education schools of sufficient size in their areas to sustain sections, although they both existed as section for over twenty years with limited membership. The Central Coast Section requested to merge with the Bay Section in 1965, and the North Coast Section followed in 1970.
At the same time, the number and size of adult schools was increasing along with the population in the southern part of the state until it became apparent that reorganization was needed. On March 21, 1969, the CCAE State Board approved a plan to split the Southern Section into two sections .The counties of San Diego, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Imperial continued as the Southern Section. The counties of Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Inyo formed the new South Coast Section. A lavish double installation was held at the Del Coronado Hotel in the San Diego area on November 8, 1969.
The next reorganization of sections occurred in 1986 when the South Coast Section divided and the new Los Angeles Metropolitan Section was formed. The LA Metro Section consisted of all of the schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District and other independent adult schools on the west side of Los Angeles County. The South Coast Section retained the rest of the former section.
Originally the organization kept its records in the offices and homes of the State President or the Executive Director, and on occasion, in car trunks. For many years the Los Angeles Unified School District's (LAUSD) adult education division hosted CCAE in a room at its 3rd Street administrative offices in Los Angeles. The room had a couple of filing cabinets for CCAE and once a month the room was the site of South Coast Section meetings. The South Coast Section at that time included what is currently the LA Metro, South Coast, and Southern Sections. The State CCAE Board rotated its meetings around various locations in the state.
CCAE lost its use of the 3rd Street office in the early 1980's and was homeless for a while. The South Coast Section met at different schools and the State Board met wherever the Executive Director Len Bush could find a location.
In 1989 the Outreach and Technical Network (OTAN) began at the Hacienda La Puente Adult Education (HLPAE) program. OTAN rented space in Sacramento near to the California Department of Education (CDE) office. Tom Johnson of HLPAE allowed CCAE Executive Director Mara Stein to set up the CCAE office there, and Angie Knott provided secretarial services for both organizations.
Four years later CCAE moved to its own office in the Fruit Building at 3rd and L Streets in Sacramento where it remained until the office was closed in 2010, with Angie remaining as the secretary until her retirement in 2007. In 2010, when the office closed, its functions were divided into General Operations under Executive Director Steve Prantalos, Financial functions under CCAE Financial Manager Chesty Peterson, and Membership functions went to Bonney Business Services. (Thanks to Past State President Holda Dorsey for the above information.)
In 2004, during major revisions of the CCAE Constitution and Bylaws, the following adjustments were made.
- The independent adult schools in Los Angeles, especially the western portion of the county, were allowed to join either the LA Metro or South Coast Sections as per their choice.
- Orange County was placed with the South Coast Section because of the proximity of the two large adult schools, Garden Grove and Huntington Beach, to the core of the South Coast Section...
- Inyo was placed with the Southern Section because of the proximity to San Bernardino and Riverside Counties.
That brings us to the current geographical configuration of CCAE since 1986 to the present which includes the following sections.
• Bay Section
• Central Section
• LA Metro Section
• Northern Section
• South Coast Section
• Southern Section |
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Section Presidents
Bay Section
Debbie Norgaard
Coordinator,
Liberty UHSD Adult Education
929 Second St.,
Brentwood, CA 94513
(925) 634-2565, Ext. 1073
(925) 634-5317 Fax
norgaard@libertyuhsd.k12.ca.us
Central Section
Sally Fowler
Principal, Fresno Adult Education
2500 Stanislaus,
Fresno, CA 93721
(559) 457-6000
sally.fowler@fresnounified.org
LA Metro Section
Sonya Ramirez
LAUSD—Belmont CAS
1575 W. Second St.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
(213) 241-8500
(213) 241-8525 Fax
Sramir1@lausd.net
Northern Section
Dennis Flynn
Stockton School for Adults
1525 Pacific Avenue
Stockton, California 95204
(209) 933-7455
president@ccaenorthernsection.org
South Coast Section
Steve Curiel
Principal,
Huntington Beach Adult School
132 Goldenwest
Huntington Beach, CA 92647
(714) 842-4227, Ext. 4401
scuriel@hbas.edu
Southern Section
Lorrie Christie
San Bernardino Adult School
1200 North E Street
San Bernardino, CA 92405
(909) 388-6000
Lorrie.christie@sbcusd.k12.ca.us
Address:
PO Box 978
Los Alamitos, CA 90720-0978
Phone: 888-542-2231
Fax: 866-941-5129
Email: membership@ccaestate.org
Website: ccaestate.org
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