This position paper gives the results of informal surveys carried out by the Bilingual-Bicultural Task Force of the California State Department of Education. Only 60 to 65% of the teachers in the state bilingual programs are judged bilingual and 50% bilingual-biliterate. Almost all of the teacher aides are judged bilingual, and a large percentage are judged bilingual and biliterate. There is, therefore, a critical shortage of qualified bilingual/cross-cultural classroom teachers for bilingual programs. Another area that shows a need for qualified teachers is the area of "Special Instruction." In accordance with the Supreme Court decision in the Lau v. Nichols case, California public schools must give special English instruction to 188,159 limited-English and non-English speaking public school pupils. Thus, there is an immediate need for several thousand qualified bilingual teachers to give this special instruction. Appendix I gives the text of the Supreme Court's Lau decision. Appendix II gives the number of non-English-speaking pupils in California public schools by grade (kindergarten through 12) and primary language for 1972-73. Appendix III presents a summary of selected public-school pupil data by racial and ethnic groups, as of fall 1973. Appendix IV gives, by language, the total number of limited- and non-English-speaking pupils in California public schools in 1972-73, for Spanish and Asian language groups. Appendix V gives the statewide total of classroom teachers, 1967-73, by racial and ethnic groups. (CFM)