Adult Basic Education

When One Person Learns, Everyone Benefits

More than 1 million adults in Washington State lack the basic education skills they need to succeed in an increasingly complicated world. Adult Basic Education (ABE) opens doors to self-sufficiency, stronger families, and improved citizenship. But adult basic literacy 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.

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.

Learn more about adult basic education programs.