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Application

2026 Geo-Regional Experts for Multilingual Students Program
Grant Results Application

Multilingual Support Division

Multilingual Students (GEMS) online application, a link to which will be available on the California Department of Education (CDE) 2026 GEMS Request For Applications (RFA) web page once the RFA is released. Complete all required fields in the application, upload attachments, and provide the appropriate digital signature.
You must adhere to character limits for each of the fields. Character limits include punctuation and spaces. Responses that exceed the character limits will not be captured by the system and will not be reviewed.
Please note: The Save Responses button allows you to save your place in the survey and return to it later. When you select the Save Responses button, a new screen will appear, and the survey will provide two options to save and return to the saved survey. You can either save the unique URL to the survey as a bookmark or add to Favorites in your web browser or provide your email address and survey will email you the unique URL to return to the saved survey.
All questions are required unless marked optional.
If you have any questions regarding this survey, please contact the Language Policy and Leadership Office by email at GEMS@cde.ca.gov.