Since 2021, California has invested over $1 billion in recruiting, training, developing, and retaining an ethnoracially diverse educator workforce that reflects its student population. However, recruitment rates have not kept pace with the increasing ethnoracial diversity of the student population, nor have these efforts curbed rising teacher turnover. Even with economic uncertainty and a potential budget shortfall, California must continue to prioritize a policy agenda that further diversifies its educator workforce because it is essential to ensuring the academic success of all its students.