Civil Rights of ELL & Black Students: FEDS TO ANNOUNCE FINDINGS ON INVESTIGATION OF LAUSD
BY SUSAN ABRAM STAFF WRITER | DAILY BREEZE | HTTP://BIT.LY/PZVDFY
10/10/2011 10:33:28 PM PDT - U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan will be in Los Angeles today to announce the results of a yearlong federal investigation into possible civil rights violations of English-language learners and black students in the LAUSD.
Duncan will share details of the investigation during today's regularly scheduled meeting of the Los Angeles Unified School District board. Superintendent John Deasy and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa are slated to attend the meeting and explain how they intend to fix problems that were discovered through the probe.
The investigation started in March 2010 was aimed at determining if the nation's second-largest school district was providing English-language learners equal access to educational opportunities given other students.
The probe included evaluating how English-learning students were identified,