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Article: Bilingual-education waiver pays off with better grades: Other California school districts eye English immersion.(Nation)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 3, 1997
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LOS ANGELES - Students in the first California school district to win a waiver of long-standing state bilingual-education requirements significantly improved both their academic performance and English-language skills during the first 18 months they were placed in English-immersion classrooms.
The results from the 9,544-student Westminster School District in suburban Orange County will be presented to the California Board of Education in December, when the district tries to make permanent a temporary waiver it won in late 1995.
They also are expected to be used by a growing movement of California school districts that want to dispense with bilingual ...