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 […]
Category: Biliteracy
Advocates Raise Key Issues at the July 2024 State Board of Education Meeting
With the growing numbers of four year olds enrolling in Transitional Kindergarten and the large numbers of these young learners coming from homes where a language other than English is […]
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 […]
United States of Biliteracy
Last month marked a watershed moment for the movement toward a linguistically inclusive society—one in which we celebrate the ability to speak, read, and write in multiple languages. South Dakota became the […]
April is National Bilingual/Multilingual Learner Advocacy Month 2023
The month of April is National Bilingual/Multilingual Learner Advocacy Month, a time to recognize the needs and achievements of bilingual and multilingual learners. Advocates and education systems should consider how […]