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Students who are placed in the English Learners category have multiple criteria to hit before being reclassified as fluent English proficient, and that issue was the focus of a discussion by the Santa ...

At the April board meeting, the Solana Beach School District celebrated a special group of 44 students who have reclassified from English learner status to Fluent English Proficient status this school ...

The threshold for transitioning students from English learners to fluent English proficient status--a process termed reclassification--varies widely across and within states, finds a study by NYU's ...

About 1 in 3 students in California’s K-12 schools were not fluent in English when they started school. Some researchers say the bar to be considered proficient in English is so high that only ...

Students in the Los Angeles Unified School District who are still learning English are becoming proficient in their new language at record levels. In L.A. Unified, 20.7 percent of the students who ...

Schools in San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties this year did not increase the percentage of English learners scoring at advanced performance levels. The California English Language Development ...

High school students may sink rather than swim if it is too easy to exit English-learner status. By contrast, when exit standards make like Goldilocks and increase to a level of difficulty that is ...

For the third straight year, growing numbers of California students with limited English skills have tested fluent, according to state scores released Tuesday that offered promising news about the ...

About 1 in 3 students in California’s K-12 schools speak a language other than English at home and were not fluent in English when they first started school — 1,918,385 students — according to data ...