California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California AB2555: English learners: reclassification.
Status: Chaptered, September 27, 2026
What the bill says
An act to amend Sections 51101 and 51225.33 of, to amend and renumber Section 313.3 of, to amend, repeal, and add Section 313 of, to add Sections 313.3, 313.4, 313.6, 313.7, and 313.9 to, and to repeal and add Section 313.5 of, the Education Code, relating to English learners, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. English learners, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately English learners: reclassification…
From the chaptered text, September 27, 2026:
An act to amend Sections 51101 and 51225.33 of, to amend and renumber Section 313.3 of, to amend, repeal, and add Section 313 of, to add Sections 313.3, 313.4, 313.6, 313.7, and 313.9 to, and to repeal and add Section 313.5 of, the Education Code, relating to English learners, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. English learners, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately English learners: reclassification. Existing law requires each school district that has one or more pupils who are English learners, and, to the extent required by federal law, each county office of education and each charter school, to assess the English language development of each pupil in order to determine the pupil’s level of proficiency, as specified. Existing law requires the assessment for initial identification to be conducted upon the initial enrollment of a pupil, as provided. Existing law requires the State Department of Education, with the approval of the State Board of Education, to establish procedures for conducting the assessment and for the reclassification of a pupil from English learner to English proficient. Existing law requires those reclassification procedures to use multiple criteria in determining whether to reclassify a pupil as proficient in English, including, (1) an assessment of language proficiency using an …