AB 2225 Working-Group Timeline
The Runway to the Presentation: Positioning, Selection, and the Plan
June 27, 2026
H-EDU Engagement Timeline — The AB 2225 Working Group
This is the runway from today to H-EDU’s presentation to the AB 2225 working group — and, on the strongest path, to convening it. It is anchored to the bill’s own procedural gates. One caution governs every date below: AB 2225 is not yet law, and its internal deadlines have already been amended once. Treat the target dates as the bill’s current targets, subject to further amendment, and re-peg this timeline the day the Governor signs.
Where the bill stands today (June 27, 2026): passed the Assembly 78-1 on May 27; passed the Senate Education Committee 7-0 and re-referred to Senate Appropriations on June 24. It sits on the Appropriations suspense file now. Nothing downstream — the organization, the working group, the Plan — begins until it clears the Legislature and is signed.
Window | Gate / Milestone | H-EDU Objective & Actions |
|---|---|---|
Phase 0 — Enactment Watch | AB 2225 clears Senate Appropriations, the Senate Floor, and Assembly concurrence; reaches the Governor by the Legislature’s Aug 31 deadline; is signed by the Governor’s end-of-September deadline. Effective Jan 1, 2027. | Build the relationships before the criteria are written: CSBA (the bill’s sponsor), and State Board (SBE) and CDE staff (the selectors). Stand up the GSU partnership and the 50-state proof of concept as credibility. Objective: be known and credible to the people who will design the competitive process. |
Phase 1 — Solicitation Design | Post-signing, the SBE — in consultation with CDE — designs the competitive process to select the organization(s) with experience assessing governance structures and closing achievement gaps. | Shape and meet the criteria: the GASB/CSBA distribution history (governance-structure experience), the oral-written delta (achievement-gap measurement), the GSU validation partnership (research rigor), the 50-state platform (scale). Prepare the bid. Objective: a bid-ready proposal aligned to criteria H-EDU uniquely satisfies. |
Phase 2 — Competitive Selection | The SBE selects and contracts the organization(s) that will convene and lead the working group. | Submit the bid; lead with the differentiators — the delta, the public-data method, the GSU validation arm, the 50-state platform. Objective: be selected as the organization — or be the named research and data partner of whoever is. |
Phase 3 — Convene & Present | The selected organization convenes the stakeholder working group (CSBA, administrators, labor, and SBE / Superintendent / legislative designees). | THE PRESENTATION TO THE WORKING GROUP. Present the measurement architecture as the spine of the Plan: the delta, child-level data, the teacher’s daily-review layer, and the longitudinal arc from grade 3 to the first day of work. Objective: the working group adopts H-EDU’s framework as the Plan’s backbone. |
Phase 4 — Develop the Plan | The working group develops the Closing the Achievement Gap State Operations and Support Plan — goals, benchmarks, annual targets, and evaluations of state bodies. | Embed the delta, the data solution, and the teacher-review layer into the Plan’s goals, benchmarks, and metrics. Objective: the Plan specifies H-EDU’s substrate as the state’s measurement layer. |
Phase 5 — Submit & Fund | The Plan is submitted to the Governor and Legislature; annual joint budget hearings begin (~Sept 1, 2028), with LAO alignment reports (AB 2149), a public dashboard (AB 2514), and the SBE Commission (AB 2202). | Move to delivery: the 50-state platform as the implementation vehicle. Objective: funded, statewide implementation of the measurement layer. |
The critical path runs through Phase 2.
Everything before the selection is positioning to win it; everything after depends on having won it. The presentation in Phase 3 is strongest when H-EDU enters the room as the selected organization that convened the group — not as an outside vendor invited to comment. The single highest-leverage stretch on this runway is therefore the months before March 2027, when the criteria are written and the bid is judged — which is why the relationship and credibility work in Phases 0 and 1 is not preamble. It is the work.
Dates reflect AB 2225 as it reads on June 27, 2026 (passed Assembly; in Senate Appropriations). They are the bill’s current targets and will shift with further amendment; confirm against the enrolled bill at signing. Sources: LegiScan and California Legislative Information (AB 2225 text and history); CSBA legislative updates (SOS for Student Achievement package: AB 2225, AB 2149, AB 2202, AB 2514); California State Senate file and deadlines calendar.