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Vancouver Public Schools reports mixed multilingual learner outcomes; dual‑language students show higher graduation rates
Summary
The district presented data on multilingual learners: staff described exit‑rate monitoring, a seven‑step instructional model, collaboration with special services to reduce over‑identification, and early evidence that dual‑language participants have higher graduation rates than comparable students.
The Vancouver Public Schools Board of Directors received a progress update on multilingual learners and dual‑language programming Tuesday, including exit rates, graduation rates and instructional strategies the district is scaling.
Lucy Estrada Guzman, director of multilingual learners, told the board the department's baseline measures included WIDA ACCESS exit rates and graduation rates and that staff are working to increase exits and graduation while reducing the share of long‑term multilingual learners. "We want to increase exit rates and we want to increase graduation rates," Estrada Guzman said.
Counts and monitoring Estrada Guzman said the district's Oct. 1 count included 3,766 students actively receiving multilingual services and that the department monitors roughly 4,000 students when accounting for two years of…
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