Educators say needs of non-native speakers not being met – New York
Tagged: bilingual, New York, Rochester, studentPosted on: October 14th, 2007“Educators from Rochester and Utica told an Assembly committee yesterday that the pressures and requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act are hurting students who are not native English speakers.
The achievement and accountability law’s “high-stakes testing, unrealistic achievement targets and punitive sanctions” are “pushing left-behind groups even further behind,” said Diana Hernandez, supervising director of bilingual, English for speakers of other languages and Hispanic services for the Rochester city school district. About 8 percent of the district’s 35,458 students in 2006-07 had limited English proficiency.”*
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