It would prohibit the Department of Education from counting test scores for English language learners against school districts until after the student completes 3 years of English language instruction. In our subcommittees hearing. with Secretary Spellings. I raised some concerns regarding English Language Arts Test that student learning to speak English as a second language were given this year. In my home State. there are over 192.000 immigrant students learning English. the majority of whom are in kindergarten through third grade. In the city of Syracuse. my hometown. we have an elementary school in which 43 percent of the kids are English language learners learning English as a second language. I recognize that there are benefits to monitoring ELL student achievement on an annual basis.
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