<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Is it possible to obtain a link to the full report? It was missing from the post.<div><br></div><div>Thanks very much!</div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3140FF"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Futura">Kathleen E. Dillon PhD</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3140FF"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Futura">Associate Director</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3140FF"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Futura">National Heritage Language Resource Center</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3140FF"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Futura"><br></font></font></div></div><br></div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><html>On Jul 8, 2008, at 9:00 AM, Harold Schiffman wrote:</html><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Forwarded From: <a href="mailto:lmresearch@lmri.ucsb.edu">lmresearch@lmri.ucsb.edu</a><br><br><br>Resource Needs for English Learners: Getting Down to Policy Recommendations<br><br>by Patricia Gandara, Julie Maxwell-Jolly, and Russell Rumberger<br><br>In 2006, California's Governor and Legislature commissioned a set of<br>24 academic research papers to examine the educational governance and<br>finance systems of the state. The studies, collectively referred to as<br>Getting Down to Facts, were intended to form a basis for engaging<br>stakeholders in deep conversations about possible education policy<br>alternatives.<br><br>This Policy Report is an extension of one of those original 24 papers,<br>and is the result of deliberations from several informal meetings and<br>two formal convenings of major stakeholders in the area of English<br>learner education. Based on data examined in the initial report, it<br>suggests a series of policy options the state should consider to<br>strengthen the educational offerings and outcomes for California's<br>burgeoning population of linguistic minority students.<br><br>More--Full report >><br>More--Newsletter story >><br><br><br><br><br>-- <br>**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to<br>its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner<br>or sponsor of<br>the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who<br>disagree with a<br>message are encouraged to post a rebuttal. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br>*******************************************<br><span><image.gif></span></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>