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Youngran Kim; Ron Zimmer – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
During the pandemic, a number of states instituted hold-harmless funding policies to protect school district financially from declining enrollments (Center for Public Education, 2021). In addition, some school choice policies have protected traditional public schools financially from declining enrollments. Together, these policies raise the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Competition, Reputation
Doolittle, Martha – Online Submission, 2015
This annual report summarizes information on Austin Independent School District's English language learner students and the bilingual education and English as a second language programs that served them during the 2014-2015 school year. The report includes summaries of data on student demographics, language acquisition, and academic performance.
Descriptors: School Districts, English Language Learners, Bilingual Education, Second Language Instruction
Rumberger, Russell W. – University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute, 2003
Two main instructional approaches have been used to educate English learners in California--English language development (ELD) together with academic instruction in the primary language (bilingual education), and ELD with or without Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English (SDAIE). Since the passage of Proposition 227 in June 1998,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Acquisition
Kester, Donald L. – 1991
Achievements made during the third year of a transitional bilingual program for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean middle school students in the Torrance Unified School District (CA) are reported. The project focused on four goal areas: student instruction, staff development, materials, and parent involvement and education. At each of the district's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian Americans, Bilingual Education Programs, Cultural Awareness