Board debates multilingual-learner exit standard as ML population rises
Trustees and administrators discussed whether to keep the district'higher WIDA exit standard (5.0) or align with the state minimum (4.5) amid a significant increase in multilingual-learner enrollment and attendant staffing concerns.
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Trustees and the superintendent discussed the district's use of WIDA scores to determine exit from multilingual-learner (ML) services, noting the district average WIDA score of about 4.0 and a recent rise in ML enrollment. One trustee summarized: "What I'm hearing is...we are considering maybe reverting to the state standard or closer to the state standard and not keeping them in our ML classes for that long," and asked whether that understanding was correct.
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