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District reports mixed multilingual‑learner progress; reclassification rates affected by state rule changes
Summary
District staff said most multilingual learners maintained or gained at least one LPAC level over the past year, but reclassification rates so far this year are lower than last year, in part because of new state guidance for students with IEPs and earlier reclassification timing in 2024‑25.
Margaret Poore, English language development teacher on special assignment, told the Mountain View Whisman School District board on April 30 that multilingual learners (MLLs) continue to show strengths but that district reclassification figures for 2025‑26 are lower so far than in prior years.
"Our multilingual learner group is very diverse," Poore said, and the district measures progress with multiple instruments including initial and summative ELPAC, interim ELPAC, district measures and CAASPP. She said LP progress — a year‑to‑year measure used to track growth toward reclassification — has hovered around 50% over the last three years and that 85% of students maintained or gained an LP level in the most recent year.
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