Three civil rights groups contend the U.S. Department of Education failed to give adequate attention to the needs of English-language learners in the $3.4 billion Race to the Top state grant competition and say they plan to hold federal education officials accountable for promises they will give them more attention in the future, according to Education Week.
“The applications [for winners] rarely mentioned English-language learners, except in passing and rarely fleshed out any thought to how they were going to close the achievement gap for ELLs,” said Roger L. Rice, the executive director of Multicultural Education, Training and Advocacy of Somerville, Mass., in an interview last week.
The Santa Ana Unified School District was the ONLY school district in Orange County, out of 28 school districts, that applied for the Race to the Top grant.
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I am confused . . . are you critical of SAUSD because they tried to get a grant or that their grant did not adequately address the needs of those who are trying to learn English as their second or third language? It is also unclear if any of the school district’s in Orange County failed to address ELL issues. Finally, just because three wacky extremist groups criticize a grant process doesn’t make them right. Not sure why taxpayers should pay for ELL in the first place.
Geoff,
Perhaps you didn’t read the entire post. The SAUSD was the ONLY OC district to apply for these funds.
What happened to my last post?
MQ,
Perhaps you hallucinated that you wrote it?
Unlike you Art, I don’t see things that are not there!