LOS ANGELES—State legislators joined a June 6 news briefing, addressing what they call an accredited ethnic language teacher shortage in California, and calling on the state to fix it with a one-time $5 million funding package.
The funding is intended to support California State Universities’ (CSU) Asian Bilingual Teacher Education Program Consortium, a multi-campus effort to increase the number of credentialed bilingual teachers in six Asian languages including Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Hmong, Korean, and Vietnamese.
With the additional funding support, the Consortium will share resources with both students and faculty, offer relevant courses, and provide counseling services to students pursuing an Asian bilingual authorization, according to the Asian Americans Advancing Justice….