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District officials report English Learner Master Plan progress, cite assessment compliance issue at secondary level
Summary
The district’s multilingual services director summarized implementation steps on the English Learner Master Plan, presented student counts and flagged the need for a district-wide secondary assessment for reclassification to meet federal monitoring requirements.
Santa Rosa City Schools staff told the Board April 9 that the district has advanced elements of its English Learner (EL) Master Plan but remains out of compliance at the secondary level for a districtwide basic-skills assessment used for reclassification.
What staff reported - Student counts: Director Eluvie Guiz Yamas said the district has 2,964 multilingual learners (MLs) this school year, about 22.1% classified as multilingual at the time of the referenced state data; roughly 1,487 students are being monitored after reclassification and 773 students are dually identified (multilingual learners who are also served by an IEP). About 397 students arrived from another country during the year; 60…
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