Growth in Foreign-Speaking Students Outstrips Growth in Teachers to Teach Them - Maryland

While the number of students with limited English proficiency is growing rapidly in Maryland schools, the number of teachers trained to work with them remains disproportionately small.

Elementary students whose native language is not English more than doubled in the last eight years — from 25,397 in 2000 to 57,060 in 2007, according to the Maryland State Department of Education.

But the department said only 1,738 teachers in the state hold certification to teach ESOL, or English to Speakers of Other Languages. “*

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