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...Spring of 1986, Secretary of Education William J. Bennett announced a change in Department funding policies, whereby local school districts were no longer obliged to provide bilingual education programs to limited English proficient (LEP) children. Instead, he said, one could substitute English as a Second Language (ESL) or immersion programs...
...July 11 article entitled "Soviets Join Americans in Teaching Exchange" had a number of errors. The English as a Second Language Program should have been abbreviated ESL. The name of one of the Soviet exchange teachers is correctly spelled Valeriy Bychkov...
...being used as a weapon against them. It's hard to function socially, let alone get your point across, when you don't speak the language. All the state has provided in this instance, however, is one Chinese translator and 25 slots in an English as a Second Language (ESL) program...
...insufficiency of long-term ESL services currently available is a wider community problem in Chinatown. Hundreds of individuals are waiting to enroll in limited ESL classes, and the overwhelming demand often forces agencies to turn away those unable to meet minimum proficiency requirements--the people who need the classes the most...
...state should recognize at least that large-scale unemployment in Chinatown, if left unaddressed, is certain to have serious social and economic consequences on the rest of the city as well. Addressing the problems of community integration and economic survival in Chinatown through measures such as increased ESL and vocational training services should be a state priority...