EWIG Executive Summary 2024 - Legislative Report

California Department of Education
Report to the Governor, the Legislature, and the Department of Finance: Educator Workforce Investment Grant Program: Professional Learning Grants

Executive Summary

This report is required by Senate Bill 75 (Chapter 51, Statutes of 2019), Section 84 of the Education Omnibus Budget Trailer Bill for the 2019–20 California State Budget. The attached report provides an update regarding the activities of the Educator Workforce Investment Grant (EWIG) Programs: English Learner (EL) Roadmap Policy Implementation, Special Education-Related Professional Learning, and Computer Science (CS).

In spring 2020, the California Department of Education (CDE), in collaboration with the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, awarded two $5 million grants for the implementation of the EL Roadmap Policy. The two grant recipients are Californians Together and the California Association for Bilingual Education. Throughout the 2021 and 2022 calendar years, these two grantees provided professional development and technical assistance to more than 40,000 educators statewide from local educational agencies and county offices of education regarding the EL Roadmap Policy adopted by the State Board of Education through the EWIG EL Roadmap Policy Implementation Grant Program.

Of the $5 million budget in the EWIG Program for Special Education, the CDE Special Education Division awarded $4,910,679 to one grant recipient, the Center for Applied Special Technology Incorporated, on July 20, 2020, due to coronavirus (COVID-19) prompting necessary administrative changes to the grant award process.

The Budget Act of 2021, Item 6100-195-0001, provided $5 million on a one-time basis to establish the EWIG Program: CS. In March 2022, the CDE awarded one $5 million grant for the implementation of the EWIG Program: CS to the University of California, Los Angeles. The EWIG Program: CS spent Year One planning for professional learning opportunities in Year Two. During Years Two and Three, CS professional learning opportunities were provided for teachers and paraprofessionals across the seven regions of the Statewide System of Support.

This report is available on the CDE EWIG Program web page. If you have any questions or would like a copy of this report, please contact the CDE Professional Learning Support and Monitoring Office at PLSMO@cde.ca.gov.

Report to the Governor, the Legislature, and the Department of Finance (DOCX)