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ESL leaders seek 43 additional teachers to match growing English‑learner enrollment and new state staffing guidance
Summary
ESL program leaders reported a growing English‑learner population (10,669 as presented) and recommended 43 additional ESL teachers to bring staffing toward a differentiated staffing standard the division uses; presenters said recent Virginia SOQ changes create new monitored‑student staffing expectations.
Tina Jenkins, speaking on behalf of the district’s ESL programs on Feb. 4, said Chesterfield’s English‑learner population has grown steadily since 2016 and that the division serves more than 10,600 English learners (the presenter noted the figure as of a few days before the meeting and said the number is increasing).
Jenkins described the division’s staffing approach prior to the state’s most recent Standards of Quality (SOQ) change: a…
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