Children Now is urging Governor Gavin Newsom to sign AB 1904, which will help create teacher apprenticeship programs providing mentorship and compensation to build a stronger, more diverse teacher pipeline for California students.

Our kids deserve a future where they can reach their full potential with no limitations. One with accessible health and child care, high-quality education, strong mental health services, and equity across all institutions. But too often, efforts to achieve these goals are too disconnected to demand policymakers’ attention, and kids are not prioritized when critical decisions are made. Led by our experienced policy and government relations teams spanning health, education, early childhood, child welfare, and a range of other areas, we learn from kids and families where they need support and lift up solutions to policymakers with the power to act. Then by coordinating collective action campaigns that unify the many voices in support of kids into one powerful message, we get policy change enacted and implemented effectively – and improve the lives of California’s kids.