
2025
2025 Highlights

POLICY
- AB 1454 (Rivas D)
Pupil literacy: administrative services credential program standards and professional development: instructional materials.
Introduced: 2/21/2025
Last Amend: 5/5/2025
Status: 6/5/2025-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0.)
Location: 6/5/2025-S. DESK
Summary: Would require the State Department of Education to, no later than September 1, 2026, identify and post on its internet website a list of in-service professional development programs for effective means of teaching literacy in specified grade levels that may be used by school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and state special schools for training certificated and classified staff who provide reading instruction or who support any teacher who provides reading instruction.
- SB 48 (Gonzalez D)
Immigration enforcement: school sites: prohibitions on access and sharing information.
Introduced: 12/16/2024
Last Amend: 4/23/2025
Status: 6/3/2025-In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Location: 6/2/2025-A. DESK
Summary: Would prohibit school districts, county offices of education, or charter schools and their personnel, to the extent possible, from granting permission to an immigration authority to access the nonpublic areas of a school site, producing a pupil for questioning by an immigration authority at a school site, or consenting to a search of any kind of the nonpublic areas of a school site by an immigration authority, unless the immigration authority presents a valid judicial warrant or court order. The bill would also require the Attorney General to publish model policies to assist K–12 schools in responding to immigration issues pursuant to the above-described requirements.

PROGRAMMING
- Annual conference
- Mariachi festival
- Webinars
- Paraeducator and parent conferences
- Summer DLI conference
- Parent and family engagement
- I3 Grant Implementation focused on parent and family leadership
- Project 2 INSPIRE
- Plaza Comunitaria
- Binational partnerships
- Asian Languages Roundtable
- NPD grant on dual language immersion and family leadership
- Community Engagement Initiative
- Immigration support training
- Interpretation and translation services
- CABE Professional Development Services (CABE PDS)
- Comprehensive View/Framework of Critical Literacy & Biliteracy Development for Multilingual Learners
- Building partnerships
- Legislative advocacy
- Oaxaca summer program
- Partnership with Hong Kong
- Indigenous languages
- Continuing to provide support for bilingual/biliteracy programs