Bilingual Education Is Creating A Comeback In California. But Some Educators Say The Fight Is
The Bilingual Department provides support and guidance for young children with a language other than English. Much less than 5% of public schools supply bilingual and multilingual programs, even though there are now 1.4 million English learners statewide — about 80% of whom speak only Spanish. She has not too long ago completed a little study hunting at a group of 100 fourth-graders in Massachusetts who had comparable reading scores on a common test, but extremely distinct language experiences.
It came after a measure that sought to prohibit immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally from access to public positive aspects and before one more that outlawed affirmative action programs. Keep the rights of language-minority Americans clearly in focus as states and communities move forward with educational reforms.
Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens), overhauls most of the 1998 edict, preserving the portion of the statute mandating that all students become proficient …
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