Seizing the Opportunity To Narrow the Achievement Gaps for English Leaners: Guidance to Counties, Districts and Schools for the Use of LCFF Funds

The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles

and the

California Community Foundation

Present an Education Forum

Seizing the Opportunity

To Narrow the Achievement Gaps for English Leaners

Guidance to Counties, Districts and Schools

for the Use of LCFF Funds

The historic Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), which became law in 2013, provides California schools, districts and teachers an unprecedented opportunity to innovate and implement research-based practices for significantly narrowing the achievement gaps between its English Learners (ELs) and all other students. But that opportunity can slip away if newly available funds are not spent carefully and directly on those students who generate them. This forum offers research-based guidance on instruction and services for ELs that go beyond established practices or improved compliance with existing education codes.

Featuring:

• Jesus M. Holguin, Moreno Valley Unified School Board Member
• Karla Pleitez Howell, Associate Director, The Advancement Project
• Adrian Sandoval, National Parent-School Partnership Director, MALDEF
• Shelly Spiegel-Coleman, Executive Director, Californians Together
• Steve Zimmer, LAUSD School Board Member

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY:

• Peter Rivera, California Community Foundation, Senior Program Officer
• Patricia Gándara, Co-director, Civil Rights Project and Study Author
• Maria Estela Zárate, Associate Professor, CSU Fullerton and Study Collaborator