CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR BILINGUAL EDUCATION

Programs

1. Regional and annual conferences provide professional development to over 9,500 educators, parents/families, and students to promote effective practices for english learners and multilingual learners who make up 40% of the student population in california. One annual, four regional conferences, and one dual language institute were scheduled for the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025. All events were held via in-person. All events successfully engaged educators, families, and community members through creative and intentional implementation strategies of engagement strategies. We embedded into our conference asian languages workshops, programs, and student performances as part of our building of multicultural competency in educators. In addition, we also held an indigenous people languages institute for educators and parents as part of our annual cabe 2025 conference 50th anniversary celebration. As part of our 50th anniversary, we also developed a cabe history website that encompasses all of cabe's 50 year history with videos, a historical book and historical archived buttons in increments of five years of cabe history.

   $3,788,080 spentof which $18,000 as grants$4,892,108 earned by the program
   47% of program spending

2. The national professional development program, project promesa, is a grant funded by the u.s. Department of education, which offers both educator and parent/family professional learning on dual language immersion programs to two districts and six schools in both southern and northern california. During the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025, over 300 educators, parents, and families continue to participate in project promesa, a 5-year grant, of which we just completed year four.

   $2,110,815 spent
   26% of program spending

3. Cabe has reorganized and rebranded our professional learning services (pls) and family & community engagement (face) departments into one team: l.e.a.d. (learn, empower. Advocate) educational solutions expanded its services and worked with over 80 school districts and county offices of education in 2024-2025. These programs are offered through contract-for-service agreements as well as grants from california and the federal departments of education. Topics and services offered include dual language immersion, english language development, asian languages round table and institutes, dual language teacher academy, eld teacher academy, literacy/biliteracy development, multilingual masterplans, administrator leadership teams, project glad, write institute, bilingual credential authorization support for para educators, special education, science for english learners, and early childhood education.

   $1,826,392 spent$2,067,427 earned by the program
   23% of program spending

4. Cabe is an advocacy organization that promotes public awareness through advocacy and information about english learner/ multilingual learner education. Each year scholarships and awards are given and bilingual/multilingual education is promoted. This is done through information campaigns, publications, websites, social media, conferences, and regional and statewide advocacy related to issues relevant to english learner/multilingual learner students. This work is taken to the local level by our membership and affiliates. During the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025, we awarded four student essay scholarships, six seal of excellence school awards, four teachership awards, two high school teachership awards, three board awards and six early childhood education awards. We produced one multilingual educator periodical with 42 articles supporting multilingual education, twelve online newsletters, and one website. "informational campaigns" is a term used to loosely describe the information we send out on different educational issues. Cabe does not engage in specific political campaigns, as a non-profit organization.

   $279,320 spentof which $5,625 as grants
   3% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,004,607.