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College Station ISD reports student gains in bilingual and ESL programs; staffing and certification gaps remain
Summary
At a Oct. 21 workshop, College Station ISD staff presented the annual Bilingual Education and ESL report, citing progress on English-language proficiency and reclassification while noting remaining teacher certification needs and planned next steps including expanded summer programming and a family advisory committee.
College Station ISD staff presented the district's annual Bilingual Education and ESL program evaluation at a workshop on Oct. 21, summarizing student proficiency, reclassification counts, staffing and budget considerations and next steps.
The presentation, which district staff said overlaps with recent school improvement and accountability reporting, reported that 145 students across grade levels met reclassification criteria this year and that many emergent bilingual students are performing at intermediate to advanced levels on composite English-language-proficiency measures. The report described reclassified students as routinely meeting standards on end-of-course English exams and said English I and English II remain areas for growth.
The presentation emphasized program scale and staffing. Staff said the district needs 46 dual-language teacher positions, of which 38 are fully certified. For the ESL program, presenters said elementary teacher counts increased from 283 to 337 and secondary teachers increased…
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