The separate California State University system, which is facing its own financial nightmares, recently canceled some days of instruction in order to put professors and other staff members on furlough.

FORBES: More Bad News for Californian College Students

The STAR programme is therefore designed to provide virtual and face-to-face training services and technical assistance to Adult Basic Education (ABE) instructors or teachers in order to enhance their knowledge about and capacity to effectively use evidence-based reading instruction strategies or practices to teach and assist adult learners to improve their reading skills.

UNESCO: STudent Achievement in Reading (STAR)