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Illinois: Opinions clashed over the value of Chicago Public Schools efforts to alleviate discriminatory effects on students who are learning to speak English, with federal court supervision of the system hanging in the balance.
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Illinois: Tess Setchell thinks the new dual-language learning program her 5-year-old daughter will enter this fall at Salt Creek Elementary School will help her grow and prepare her for a multilingual society. Though the dual-language program will be new at the Elk Grove Village school and in Arlington Heights-based Community Consolidated School District 59, other [...]

Illinois: As director of the English Language Learners Program at Valley View School District, it is my responsibility to coordinate the identification and correct placement of students in our district who are in need of learning English as their second language - children whose native language is any other language besides English. The great majority [...]

Illinois: East Maine School District 63 and three of its schools failed make adequate yearly progress according to the standards of No Child Left Behind and the Illinois Standards Academic Achievement Test, but school officials said their test scores suffered because many of their students were forced to take this year’s test in a foreign [...]