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- 10-14-2011
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Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post
The two largest public school systems in the country — New York City and Los Angeles — this week acknowledged that they had been failing to meet the needs of English language learners and promised to implement new programs to improve the situation. The trouble in these systems underscores the depth of the problem faced by systems around the country. In the last decade, the number of English language learners enrolled in public schools across the country has skyrocketed, from 3.5 million in 1997-98 to 5.3 million in 2008-09. That’s a 51 percent jump, and many school systems have not had resources to meet the needs of these children. The New York Times reported that state education officials announced Wednesday that the city’s public schools are providing poor services to too many English language learners and set out a plan to improve. (more...)
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