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Panel advances $5 million grant bill to expand dual‑language instructional materials

2794204 · March 26, 2025
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AB 865 would create a one‑time $5 million grant program administered by the California Department of Education to develop and acquire standards‑aligned instructional materials for dual‑language immersion programs; the committee advanced the bill to appropriations with 7 committee votes.

The Assembly Education Committee passed AB 865, which would establish a one‑time $5 million Dual Language Immersion Instructional Materials Grant administered by the California Department of Education (CDE) over three years. The grant would be split into two pools: $3.5 million for programs offering instruction in the state’s top five English‑learner languages (Spanish, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Cantonese and Arabic) and $1.5 million for other languages (for example, Korean,…

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