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[quote=Anonymous]Now that the Spanish level at OA and elsewhere has surfaced in the thread, this educated (but no so affluent) bilingual (but Spanish dominant) parent, would like to repost something from earlier in the thread

[quote]What we have to do is support the expansion of bilingual programs throughout the city and demand that DCPS seriously devote more resources to bilingual education so that it is truly excellent. DCPS has no clear curriculum standards and guidelines for bilingual education. At DCPS, the same office in charge of ESL (dealing with the issues of DC's large immigrant population) is also in charge of bilingual education. Furthermore, it is staffed by a handful (or fewer) of people. There are 7 or more DCPS bilingual schools and now they are proposing Roosevelt HS with dual immersion. We should require proper oversight of the language component of all these programs and also make it part of the evaluation process of students and schools. What is the incentive for a school to teach the second language well if they are only measured by their English reading and math scores? This is the conversation we should have among us and with DCPS. The link below has some info

http://www.american.edu/cas/seth/bilingual/upload/...CE-SEPTEMBER-27-2014_Brito.pdf [/quote]

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