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 […]
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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 […]
We Are Prepared, We Will Renew
With the outcome of last night’s election, there is anxiety around what the results will mean for English learners, newcomer students, and multilingual education as a whole. While we can’t […]
Where Do We Go From Here? August 2024 Legislative Update
As August marks the close of the legislative session, we reflect on the end of this two-year cycle. It’s an election year, and for many legislators, this marks the conclusion […]
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 […]
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 […]