RSS1.6 million are English learners in Calif. schools
Carolyn Hileman - The Voice | May 2, 2008
The new scores on the California English Language Development Test that students designated as English learners take each year are encouraging. But they don’t mean much. They’re driven largely by the number of English learners, most of them immigrants, who come into the state’s schools each year and by the number who become proficient enough so that they’re reclassified and are no longer counted. But they’re powerful evidence of the incredibly high-stakes task California schools have taken on – high stakes for all sorts of reasons. One-fourth of our students – 1.6 million – are classified as English learners. Another 18 percent are students whose primary language is also not English but who have been designated or redesignated as fluent English proficient. That comes to roughly 43 percent of California’s enrollment – 2.7 million of California’s 6.3 million students – who start out speaking some other language. No school system on the globe has taken on a task of that magnitude or one tied to such huge political and social consequences for the future of its people.
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