Large Districts to Use Stimulus for ELL Support
At least four large urban school districts plan to spend a significant amount of their federal economic-stimulus money to support or improve programs for English-language learners, a fast-growing group in U.S. schools. The districts—Boston, New York City, St. Paul, Minn., and Seattle—have had varying degrees of success serving such students.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which includes up to $100 billion for education programs, doesn’t specifically mention ELLs, and the U.S. Department of Education’s guidance for the law makes only passing reference to them.
But "limited-English students are among the very students that these stimulus dollars are aimed at," Jim Bradshaw, a spokesman for the Education Department, said in an e-mail last week. The department, he noted, mentioned that ELLs could benefit from better assessments in its March 7 announcement of its initial distribution of $44...
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