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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, he put his foot down on our Hispanic community. [/quote]

Here's the tough thing about immersion in Arlington in general, and Key in particular.  The dual immersion is supposed to primarily benefit native spanish speakers, so they can learn in their own language.  There is plenty of educational research to back up the idea that they will do better if they are taught in both languages.  But the native Spanish speaking community in Arlington is not convinced of this.  This year Key had reserved seats for native spanish speakers.  They ended up having to give those slots to native english speakers over the summer or else seats would have gone unfilled.  
How do you convince native spanish speakers that there are better off in immersion?  Well an obvious place to start would be looking at test scores.  You would expect to see (based on educational research) that the scores for English Language learners would be much better at Key, then elsewhere in the division.   But they aren't.  http://schoolquality.virginia.gov/schools/francis-scott-key-elementary#fndtn-desktopTabs-assessments
The reading scores are about the same.  The math scores are actually lower at Key for English Language learners- which is surprising given that they are being taught math in their native language.  Claremont has similar results to Key.  http://schoolquality.virginia.gov/schools/claremont-immersion#fndtn-desktopTabs-assessments

It's hard to see how moving Key is a strike against the hispanic community when they aren't currently filling all the slots alloted for them at Key.[/quote]

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