Mrs. Betty Cordoba. in an appearance before the Los Angeles Board of Education in August of 1978. asked the Board to answer a series of questions which reflected the growing skepticism about the numbers of NES/LES claimed by the distrit. That this skepticism was justified can be understood by comparing the number of immigrant students in special language programs in Los Angeles a decade before with statistics in the bilingual era. In 196768. an official district publication listed 7.549 secondary students in ESL classes. The number had grown to 8.690 by the next school year with 4.200 in elementary classes for a total of 12.890 in all grades.
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