February 20, 2025 | New America
In this New America article by Amaya Garcia, Early Edge California’s Director of Policy, Carolyne Crolotte, advocates for a developmentally appropriate measure of English language proficiency for Transitional Kindergarten (TK) students.
“We need to have a systematic way of identifying them that is ideally asset-based, where we’re really focused on the potential to become bilingual and biliterate as opposed to saying that you’re deficient in English and need to improve your English,” said Carolyne Crolotte, director of policy at Early Edge.