Dear Select County and District Superintendents and Charter School Administrators:

2025–27 Schools Eligible for Williams Monitoring

The California Department of Education is required to determine schools eligible for Williams monitoring every three years. The 2025–27 list now available on the Schools Eligible for Williams Monitoring web page at https://www.cde.ca.gov/eo/ce/wc/willamsmonitoring.asp. You are receiving this correspondence due to one or more schools in your local educational agency (LEA) being eligible for this list in the 2024–25 school year.

California Education Code (EC) Section 1240 requires that the list of schools eligible for Williams monitoring be based upon the following criteria:

• Schools eligible for Comprehensive Support and Improvement under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
• Schools eligible for Additional Targeted Support and Improvement under ESSA
• Schools with fifteen percent or more of the school’s teachers that do not possess a valid and clear or preliminary teaching credential.

Note: Dashboard Alternative School Status (DASS) are excluded from the Williams list.

County offices of education and local educational agencies are encouraged to review EC Section 1240 to confirm their understanding of the continued monitoring and reporting requirements of the law. Resources to support this work are available on the Williams Case web page at https://www.cde.ca.gov/eo/ce/wc/.

If you have any questions about the list of schools eligible for monitoring under the Williams Case, please contact the Analysis, Measurement, and Accountability Reporting Division by email at Dashboard@cde.ca.gov.

Sincerely,

Cindy Kazanis, Director
Analysis, Measurement, and Accountability Reporting Division