LAUSD and feds reach civil rights accord
Focus on English learners and Black students
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Los Angeles Unified School District agreed to vast improvements in the way it teaches English learners and African American students after a 19-month investigation by the U.S.Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights found students were being denied equal educational opportunities.
Even after years in the district, many English learners were languishing in ESL classes, never becoming fluent in English and therefore being shut out of the core academic classes they needed to graduate and enroll in college or job-training programs. Nearly 30 percent of
