Usually books on bilingual education are for teachers and little attention has been previously paid to how families can act to ensure that American public schools develop
bilingual education programs for their children.
As a direct result of the passage of this initiative, the number of ELs in
bilingual education programs in California declined significantly from 30 % of all ELs in the state to 8 % of all ELs.
State Law and Regulations — RCW and WAC Chapter 28A.180 RCW — Transitional Bilingual Instructional Program In Washington's Basic Education Act, this is the statute that provides for the implementation of
transitional bilingual education programs in public schools.
Also, IDRA has rigorously and methodically studied
exemplary bilingual education programs in schools across the nation as determined by limited English proficient students» academic achievement.
The passage of Proposition 58 in November 2016 removes restrictions
on bilingual education programs for California's English Learner (EL) students, allowing California school districts to more easily create or expand bilingual and immersion programs.
Their example inspired the 1998 California «English for the Children» initiative, which won in a landslide and successfully dismantled
most bilingual education programs in that state.
Many bilingual education programs were substituted by English - only programs, some were English as a second language programs that were supplementary to regular instruction, others self - standing structured English immersion programs, also known as sheltered English.
promote the establishment, maintenance, and expansion of high
quality bilingual education programs for students of diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds as a means to ensure equitable and enriched educational opportunities for all students;
A California judge has issued a preliminary injunction that orders the state — at least for now — to allow
local bilingual education programs to qualify for federal reading grants.
Under current state policy,
bilingual education programs essentially are barred from receiving some of the $ 133 million in Reading First grants that go to California from the U.S. Department of Education.
For example, the program titles and descriptions for the Vietnamese, Russian, Khmer, and
Chinese bilingual education programs in Minnesota, New York, California, and Massachusetts (before these programs were eliminated in the latter two states) often state that the children will be receiving native - tongue instruction.
So I organized an effort to put a measure on the ballot that would shift the state of California away from so -
called bilingual education programs towards a simple and effective system of intensive English immersion.
If bilingual education programs are more available in districts with better funding or in metro areas with greater postsecondary and labor market opportunities, then participants may realize superior outcomes just because of where they happen to live.
English - learners in English immersion classes academically outperformed their counterparts in
holdover bilingual education programs in every subject, every grade level, and every year, racking up performance advantage of 80 - to - 0.
In 1976, IDRA engaged in a bilingual education cost study using an expert panel methodology to identify what practitioners in the field of bilingual education considered to be critical elements of an
effective bilingual education program.
Certainly, Hispanics suffer discrimination, some of it severe — police harassment of black and brown adolescents, accompanied by high incarceration rates, and the nativist - driven rollback of
bilingual education programs come to mind — but the undeniable hardship faced by recent, non-English speaking, unskilled, low - wage immigrants is not equivalent to blacks» centuries of lower - caste status.
In fact, one of the biggest takeaways from Jaumont's book is that despite the greater ethnolinguistic diversity today, it is possible to develop and
sustain bilingual education programs for different communities.
Three states ---- California, Massachusetts and Arizona ---- declared bilingual education illegal around the turn of the 21st century, and
bilingual education programs all across the nation started to close down (Menken & Solorza, 2014).
Similarly, those who have struggled to successfully create effective structured English immersion programs and / or who believe that bilingualism is an important skill for schools to support will be able to develop and implement
bilingual education programs without the onerous hurdle of having to get annual parental waivers.