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Making Multilingual Education the Norm in California
Last month, the advocacy group Californians Together launched Multilingual Education for All (MLE4ALL), a new statewide campaign designed to expand access to multilingual education and strengthen pathways to bilingualism and biliteracy for students across California. The Multilingual Education for All campaign is a long-term effort to ensure that multilingual education becomes a defining feature of California’s P–12 education system. Through policy advocacy, research, coalition-building, and public awareness, the campaign seeks to expand high-quality multilingual programs, including dual language programs, and ensure all students have the opportunity to develop bilingual and biliteracy skills. “California is one of the most linguistically diverse