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The bright yellow banner hanging in the Summit Middle School cafeteria reads: “We are all citizens of the world.” Summit School District honored 67 students who are one step closer to becoming global ...

Students who are placed in the English Learners category have multiple criteria to hit before being reclassified as fluent English proficient, and that issue was the focus of a discussion by the Santa ...

At the April board meeting, the Solana Beach School District celebrated a special group of 44 students who have reclassified from English learner status to Fluent English Proficient status this school ...

About 1 in 3 students in California’s K-12 schools were not fluent in English when they started school. Some researchers say the bar to be considered proficient in English is so high that only ...

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Students in the Los Angeles Unified School District who are still learning English are becoming proficient in their new language at record levels. In L.A. Unified, 20.7 percent of the students who ...

Schools in San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties this year did not increase the percentage of English learners scoring at advanced performance levels. The California English Language Development ...

High school students may sink rather than swim if it is too easy to exit English-learner status. By contrast, when exit standards make like Goldilocks and increase to a level of difficulty that is ...

At the April board meeting, the Solana Beach School District celebrated a special group of 44 students who have reclassified from English learner status to Fluent English Proficient status this school ...