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Hearing opens in legal battle over Arizona ELL programs
- 09-03-2010
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By Mary Ann Zehr/Education Week
On the first day of a hearing in a closely watched federal court case over Arizona’s programs for English-language learners, a single witness for the state department of education spent the entire day on the stand testifying on the success of the state’s approach to teaching students who need to learn English. Meanwhile, news surfaced that federal civil rights officials took a slightly dimmer view of aspects of the state’s ELL programs. In letters sent to the state school superintendent last month, the U.S. Department of Education’s office for civil rights, or OCR, said it had determined that two of the practices the state uses to identify which students require services, or for how long, violate federal law. They are the surveys the state sends to homes to initially identify students to be tested for ELL services and the process the state uses to reclassify ELLs as fluent in English even if they don’t pass all sections of the state’s English-language-proficiency test. (more…)
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