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California: The bilingual education program at Boronda Meadows Elementary School in Salinas has been awarded the 2008 Seal of Excellence by the California Association for Bilingual Education. It’s one of just two to receive the award for the year, notes The Californian.
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California: A decision to end the four-year-old dual-language program at Ritter Elementary School came after the Los Angeles Unified School District, the state of California and Superintendent of Instruction Angela Bass reviewed data suggesting that the program was not boosting student achievement, and that there were not enough participants. Since then, parents have campaigned to [...]

California: Twenty students, Filtration Group employees, graduated Wednesday from an English program coordinated by the Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce, Santa Rosa City Schools and the California Parenting Institute. The students spent the semester staying after work at least two days a week for English instruction to better equip them as both employees and [...]

California: Vanessa Gomez, who was named the Lammersville School District’s 2006-07 New Teacher of the Year, said she had to become more efficient and creative with limited resources in her English-language development class when she lost her instructional aide at Wicklund Elementary, where the school’s 15 percent English learners speak 43 different languages. Budget woes [...]

California: Ten years after California voters approved sweeping changes in the way schools teach English to immigrant children under Proposition 227, some educators say the law has not worked and needs to be changed. “It’s not working,” said Grace McField, assistant professor of multilingual and multicultural education at Cal State San Marcos. “We’ve had it [...]

California: The Atascadero Unified School District Board of Trustees received an overview from AUSD testing and accountability coordinator Dan Mosunich regarding the expected results of the California English Language Development Test, which is administered to students every year to assess their spelling, listening, reading and writing skills, during a recent school board meeting.
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California: Nearly 1,000 aspiring teachers in San Francisco and San Diego will learn cutting-edge techniques for teaching science to young children whose first language isn’t English as part of a collaboration led by UC Santa Cruz.
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Local schools are enrolling a growing number of students who don’t speak English – students who typically fare poorly on standardized tests – at a time when the federal No Child Left Behind Act calls for unprecedented test score gains. Nearly 123,000 students in San Diego County public schools are classified as English learners, up [...]

The Earth Times - California: Pearson announced today that the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing has awarded the company a two-year contract to manage its certification testing for teachers of English Language Learners, the California Teachers of English Learners(R) (CTEL(R)) exams.
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