Welcome to Adult Basic Education

Literacy Providers List

In order to identify and contact the leaders of literacy efforts in your community, select one of the links to literacy providers in the list.
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Literacy Overview

The Adult Basic Education Overview is a summary of information about the basic skills system.
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ABE Literacy Week

Governor's Proclamation
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Integrated Programs for Low-Income Students (I-BEST)

I-BEST pairs ESL/ABE instructors with professional-technical instructors in the classroom to provide students with literacy education and workforce skills at the same time. More information is available on the Student Success Web site.

More than 1 million adults in Washington State lack the basic education skills they need to succeed in an increasingly complicated world. For these citizens, Adult Basic Education (ABE) opens doors to self-sufficiency, stronger families, and improved citizenship. But adult basic education does more than help individuals. It lays the foundation for our state’s success in building a strong workforce, a vital economy, and healthy communities. When one person learns, everyone benefits. We hope you will find on this site information and connections that will help you as an adult learner, provider, or partner and discover opportunities to influence ABE in our state.

Adult Basic Education at the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges works with adult learners, service providers and literacy supporters across the state of Washington to ensure that all adults will have access to the adult and family literacy services that can assist them in getting the skills they need to:

Have access to information
Act independently
Express their own ideas and feelings
Keep up with a changing world
Exercise their full rights and responsibilities as family members, workers and community members.

If you have questions, please contact Kathy Cooper at 360-704-4322 or kcooper@sbctc.edu.

Israel David Mendoza
Director of the Office of Adult Basic Education