Tag: california
California Seeks to Expand Bilingual Teacher Prep
California has outlined several goals for its education system, which are rapidly approaching over the course of the next decade. Among these are plans...
California Commits $3 Billion to Community Schools Strategy
Last month, California state superintendent Tony Thurmond announced the formation of an advisory board to help guide the work of the California Community Schools...
California’s Commitment: Literacy, Biliteracy, and Libraries
I have only one critical comment about California’s Secretary of Education Thurmond’s task force report, “California Commits to Literacy and Bets on Biliteracy,” but...
Recommendations for Long-Term English Learners
Ten years after their groundbreaking publication, Reparable Harm called attention to California’s long-term English learners (LTELs), Californians Together has released Renewing Our Promise, a...
California Commits to Literacy Target and Bets on Biliteracy
California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond has announced an initiative to ensure that not only will every student learn to read by...
Improving Accountability for English Learners in California
Californians Together, a statewide education advocacy coalition, has introduced a new framework for accountability focused on the needs of English learner (EL) students in...
California Set to Boost Education Spend
California’s Governor, Gavin Newsom, is proposing to spend almost $86 billion in his newly released budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year, thanks to the...
The Multilingual Paradigm in California
The idea of asset-based and responsive education coined in the ELA/ELD road map is a key element in well-designed and effectively implemented dual-immersion programs....
Tell California Lawmakers that Translators and Interpreters are PROFESSIONALS
CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS ONLY
The Joint National Committee for Languages (JNCL) is asking all language professionals and business leaders to urge the state’s legislators to include...
Latinos Make Up Majority of Admitted Freshmen to the University of...
According to preliminary data released Thursday by the University of California, Latino students will make up the majority of the University of California's freshman...
