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Central Valley district to alter program for students learning English - latimes.com

Central Valley district to alter program for students learning English - latimes.com:


Central Valley district to alter program for students learning English

Mark Rosenbaum, chief counsel for the ACLU of Southern California

A Central Valley school district will replace a program that was criticized as ineffective for students learning English, officials announced Thursday.
Dinuba Unified School District, near Fresno, had become the target of litigation filed in May on behalf of two unidentified students, their parents and five teachers.
The program, called Second Language Acquisition Development Instruction, took first-, second- and third-graders out of their regular classes and instead taught them grammar at a level beyond what native English speakers are