BPS's contentious strategy for English learners
Nine out of 13 members of Boston Public Schools’ English Language Learners task force have resigned over the district’s proposed plan to overhaul its treatment of students who are still learning English -- a subset of learners equalling nearly a third of all students in the district.
The Common · WBUR
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Nine out of 13 members of Boston Public Schools’ English Learners task force have resigned over the district’s proposed plan to overhaul its treatment of students who are still learning English — a subset of learners equalling nearly a third of all students in the district.
Deanna Pan is a reporter with The Boston Globe's Great Divide team, which reports on inequality in Boston area schools. She joins The Common to lay out the details of BPS's new inclusion plan and the ELL task forces' criticisms of it.
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