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Commissioner proposes district Multicultural & Multilingual Support Initiative; board debates governance role
Summary
Commissioner Griffin presented a proposal for a districtwide Multicultural and Multilingual Support Initiative (MMSI) to address alleged gaps in services for non-Spanish multilingual students and OCR compliance concerns; the board debated whether the proposal crossed into administration operations and raised questions about existing state-mandated plans and recent OCR findings.
Commissioner Maureen Griffin used the Dec. 18 board meeting to present a formal proposal for a Multicultural and Multilingual Support Initiative (MMSI) after noting that multilingual enrollment has grown sharply and that the district continues to face challenges meeting English-language-learning obligations for some language groups.
Griffin described alleged compliance problems in recent years — including cited instances of students taking English-language exams in incorrect…
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