Our Year of Impact: A Look Back at 2024
As we wind down 2024, we wanted to reflect on a year of impactful advocacy and significant change across the policy landscape. From celebrating our past to preparing for the […]
Author: David Gonzalez
November 2024 Testimony for the Reading Difficulties Panel
In the 2025-26 school year, all schools will be required to administer annually to every K-2 student a screener for reading difficulties. A panel has been working all year to […]
Announcing the Preschool/Transitional Kindergarten Toolkit for English Learner Roadmap Implementation
California is on the cusp of exciting developments that signal a commitment to creating a system of early learning and care that centralizes the young dual language learners who now […]
California Districts Are Seeing Increases in State Seal of Biliteracy Recipients—You Can Thank AB 370
This blog post is the second installment in our ongoing blog series celebrating the State Seal of Biliteracy. The first entry can be found here. Since 2012, California has awarded […]
Celebrating Multilingual Champions and Creating a Vision for the Next 25 Years
Last week, Californians Together was proud to host an event commemorating twenty-five years of policy and advocacy wins by honoring legislative champions of multilingual education. Over 100 education policy professionals […]
New Report from PACE Shines a Light on Newcomer Students
Newcomer is a term typically used to describe students who recently arrived in U.S. schools–but what recently means is not uniformly agreed upon. A new report from PACE, written by Californians Together Director […]