As Wait, What? readers know, under the guise of the Governor Malloy’s “education reform” law, the City of Hartford has handed the Milner School (including all of its students and the school’s publicly funded budget) over to the Jumoke Academy.
A quarter of Milner’s student population is not fluent in English and four in ten go home to households where English is not the primary language.
On the other hand, Jumoke Academy, who is now in control of Milner’s curriculum and student environment, has absolutely NO experience in working with bilingual students. In fact, Jumoke reported on their official state school profile reports that they’ve never had a bilingual student nor have they ever had a student who went home to a household other