Pupil literacy: statewide professional learning infrastructure.

Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary schools in this state and authorizes local educational agencies throughout the state to operate schools and provide instruction to pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive. This bill would require the State Department of Education to develop and implement a statewide professional learning infrastructure to provide evidence-based support to educators in teaching reading and literacy across grades and across the content areas identified in the state's English Language Arts/English Language Development Framework, as provided. The bill would require the department to establish the statewide professional learning infrastructure through the statewide system of support and in collabation with the California Collaborative for Education Excellence, and would require the department to identify, though a competitive process, a lead county office of education to administer the infrastructure.