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Educational Exellence for Hispanic Americans
Report the progress of Hispanic Americans towards achievement of the National Educators Goals oan other standards of educational accomplishments;
Oversee the development, monitoring, and coordination of Federal efforts to promote high-quality education for hispanc americans;
Developways to increase State, private sector, and community involvement in improving education;
Develop ways to expand and complement Federal education initiatives. -
Prop 227 Elimination of programs
Requires California public schools to teach LEP students in special classes that are taught nearly all in English. This provision had the effect of eliminating "bilingual" classes in most cases.
Shortens the time most LEP students stay in special classes.
Proposition 227 eliminated most programs in the state that provided multi-year special classes to LEP students by requiring that (1) LEP students should move from special classes to regular classes when they have acquired a good working knowled -
Az prop 203 English for the children
Arizona Proposition 203, English for the Children, is a ballot initiative that was passed by 63% of Arizona voters on November 7, 2000. This piece of legislation limited the type of instruction available to English Language Learner (ELL) students. Before Proposition 203, schools were free in terms of ELL instruction to use bilingual or immersion methods. According to a cover letter from the Arizona Department of Education Superintendent of Public Instruction Lisa Graham Keegan to the Arizona Leg -
NCLB Act
2001 – No Child Left Behind Act - Bilingual education was folded into NCLB and references to “bilingual education” were changed to “language instruction education program.” Bilingual Education was turned into a state-administered formula-grant program. NCLB required states and districts “to help ensure that children who are limited English proficient, …attain English proficiency, develop high levels of academic attainment in English, and meet the same challenging State academic standards as al -
Weighing the Evidence: A Meta-Analysis of Bilingual Education in Arizona
The 1994 and 2002 versions of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), however, required each state to develop an assessment system that includes ELLs and ensures that they make adequate progress from year to year. The Improving America's Schools Act (IASA) and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) tightened many of the testing exemptions used by states and raised the accountability stakes for tracking and improving ELL student performance. -
Az prop 203
Arizona Proposition 203, English for the Children, is a ballot initiative that was passed by 63% of Arizona voters on November 7, 2000. This piece of legislation limited the type of instruction available to English Language Learner (ELL) students. Before Proposition 203, schools were free in terms of ELL instruction to use bilingual or immersion methods. According to a cover letter from the Arizona Department of Education Superintendent of Public Instruction Lisa Graham Keegan to the Arizona Leg
