You may have heard in the last couple of years about how we in
K-12 education, are implemeting an entirely new collection of
academic standards. In August of 201o, the California State
Board of Education approved a collection of new English Language
Arts and Mathementics Standards for K-12 education. In the
coming years, we will see new Social Science and Science
Standards, aligned to the Common Core ELA and Math standards.
Since then, we have been working toward the implementio of those
standards. Connected with that adoption of those standards,
California has joined the SMARTER Balanced Assessment
Consortiium. We are anticipating a whole new academic
asssessment in the 2014-2015 school year. With both of these new
systems having been adopted by our state, we are seriously
working at supporting districts in the implementation of the
Common Core Standards, with an emphasis on the specific
linguistic needs of our English learner population. The English
Learner Group is supporting teachers and administrators in