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Newport-Mesa schools to cut ESL, adult education classes to help close budget gap
- 02-12-2010
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Blog by Jill-Marie Jones/Los Angeles Times
Newport-Mesa Unified School District is expected to drop English as a
second language classes and slash adult education offerings under a
package of proposed budgetary cuts. According to Tom Ragan in the Daily
Pilot, doing away with ESL classes and the bulk of adult education
programs would be felt most keenly by the people living in the
district’s Costa Mesa side, where these programs are concentrated and
where many Latinos live. Hundreds of Spanish-speaking parents take the
ESL classes so they can lead by example and talk to their children in
English. Kimberly Claytor, president of the Newport-Mesa Federation of
Teachers, said that the elimination of the ESL classes could prove
detrimental to student achievement because the parents often are “the
first line of help.” (more...)
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