Quarter 4 had several significant initiatives move forward in Sweetwater Adult Education (SAE) for both students and staff and several are noted here. The local School Board of Trustees approved several Adult Division short and long range plans for all four adult school sites which will support our most important mission, the students we serve.  These initiatives include areas such as; curriculum and instruction, campus health and safety, school capital project improvements and professional development.  Additionally, these initiatives will support offsetting some of the carryover dollars that have been building up just prior, and through the pandemic (2019 to present).  As noted and shared previously in Q2 & Q3, one of our challenges has been to utilize some these carryover dollars in a meaningful way which were associated to the pandemic and the difficulty to recruit and retain part and full time staff due to global and regional labor shortages. However, we were able to collaborate with our district leadership and move forward with the hiring process.  This included securing our new, recently hired temporary teachers for next school year (24-25) who otherwise would have been “let go” at the end of this 23-24 school year by working closely with our labor representatives and district leadership.