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"Declaration of Rights for Parents of English Language Learners
The U.S. Department of Education and faith-based community leaders launched an initiative to inform Hispanic, Asian, and other parents of ELLs about the NCLB -
Native Language and English/ ESL
Forty states still had bilingual education programs that used the native language and English, with the rest offering some type of English-as-a-second-lan-guage (ESL) instructional program.