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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The percentage of English language learners in New York State is over 10% and growing. In Mississippi it’s 3%. The “declining performance” in public schools is due to increased immigration, period. I work at a school with high numbers of language learners and this accounts for nearly all of our students below grade level. We are tossing kids into the system at age 5 with little English and little background in school and then somehow expecting it to even out.[/quote] Yup this is it. If you can speak and understand English- we can teach you to read. If you have zero knowledge of English AND your parents dont’ know how to read AND are trying to speak to you in Spanglish it is a VERY different. Mississippi is pulling ahead because it is too poor to attract support immigrant labor. Most states ahve laws mandating phonics now, but Mississippi is different because it has a very small ESL population.[/quote]
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