California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California AB2332: Dual language immersion: Dual Language Immersion Coordinator.
Status: Chaptered, September 27, 2026
What the bill says
An act to add Article 6 (commencing with Section 52205) to Chapter 7 of Part 28 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education Code, relating to pupil instruction. pupil instruction Dual language immersion: Dual Language Immersion Coordinator. Existing law appropriates $10,000,000 from the General Fund for the 2021–22 fiscal year to the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer the Dual Language Immersion Grant Program for the purpose of expanding access to quality dual language learning and fostering languages that English learners bring to California’s education system…
From the chaptered text, September 27, 2026:
An act to add Article 6 (commencing with Section 52205) to Chapter 7 of Part 28 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education Code, relating to pupil instruction. pupil instruction Dual language immersion: Dual Language Immersion Coordinator. Existing law appropriates $10,000,000 from the General Fund for the 2021–22 fiscal year to the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer the Dual Language Immersion Grant Program for the purpose of expanding access to quality dual language learning and fostering languages that English learners bring to California’s education system. Under that program, the State Department of Education is required to award a minimum of 25 one-time Dual Language Immersion Grants over a period of 3 fiscal years of up to $380,000 per grant to an eligible entity to expand or establish dual language immersion programs. This bill would require, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the department, on or before July 1, 2027, to establish a Dual Language Immersion Coordinator to provide coordination between local educational agencies, as defined, to share resources and knowledge on dual language immersion programs, as defined. The bill would require the Dual Language Immersion Coordinator to (1) act as the point of contact within the department for local educational agencies seeking to, among other things, establish new or expand existing dual language immersion programs, and (2) establish, …