New Rules OKd to Allow Bilingual Teaching
In an effort to clarify California’s ban on bilingual instruction, the State Board of Education voted 6 to 0 for new regulations that outline alternatives to full English immersion classes.
The policy allows parents to apply for their children to receive bilingual instruction after 30 days of English immersion. It dropped earlier proposals to allow teachers and administrators to do the same, plans that anti-bilingual activists argued would gut Proposition 227, which ended most bilingual instruction in 1998.
Parents raised the issue with the state board, said Board of Education spokesman Phil Garcia, after local school districts took a hard line against granting waivers for bilingual instruction to struggling students.
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