Ask Governor Brown to appoint English Learner Advocate

Ed Trust – West has joined a diverse coalition of organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union, Californians Together, the California Association of Bilingual Educators and the California Latino School Boards Association in asking Gov. Jerry Brown to appoint an English learners advocate to the State Board of Education. The governor has the opportunity to do right by the more than 1.4 million English learners by choosing someone with a track record of fighting for these students and who understands the families and communities the students come from.

Coalition of Signing Organizatons
The Education Trust-West	Californians Together	California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE)	Californians for Justice
Educators 4 Excellence – Los Angeles	Reading and Beyond	California Latino Shool Board Association	Fresno Center of New Americans
InnerCity Struggle	GEMAS	Asian Americans Advancing Justice	Public Counsel
United Way of Greater Los Angeles	Public Advocates Inc.	Parent Institute for Quality Education	ACLU of California
CARECEN – Los Angele	United Ways of California	United Way of the Bay Area	Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA)
The Civil Rights Project (UCLA)