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In addition to speaking Spanish and English, college students at Academia Semillas del Pueblo constitution college in El Sereno take classes in Nahuatl. James Crawford is a former government director of the National Association for Bilingual Training (NABE) and former Washington editor of Schooling Week, in addition to his long career as an unbiased author on language and education. Connecticut: Ended bilingual applications in 2000 for the mainly Spanish-talking ELL students concentrated in the public schools of the three largest cities.

This development of lowering LEP student counts as one goes up the grade levels, documented in the state’s tracking research of LEP pupil status over time, happens in large part as a result of LEP college students tend to be transitioned out of bilingual programs after a median of three years or less.

This is the reason so many school districts are implementing bilingual training standards at decrease grade …