An Overview of Rhode Island's Adult Education
Rhode Island's public Adult Education system is designed to ramp up the capacity of low-skilled and would-be workers. The system focuses on basic academic and workforce skills, including teaching English, preparing students for jobs and higher education.
By definition, Adult learners have any of these attributes:
- no high-school diploma;
- skills below 12th-grade level;
- limited English Language skills;
- are 16 years or older.
This story examines only those learners in one of the 34 programs publicly-funded through the Rhode Island Department of Education. (Academic services are also offered by churches and other non-publicly-funded organizations about which data are unavailable.)
*Data source for all general information on RI's Adult Education system: RI Dept. of Education, Office of Multiple Pathways.
