[EDLING:83] Canada: More than half of ESL students without specialist teachers

[Francis M. Hult]

Globe and Mail

More than half of ESL students without specialist teachers

More than half of Ontario elementary schools with pupils requiring English-as-a-
second-language instruction do not have a specialist ESL teacher, according to 
new information that highlights a pressing issue in urban classrooms. 

People for Education, a parent group that released the figures yesterday, also 
said that 27 per cent of secondary schools with ESL students lack ESL teachers. 

"There's a real issue of unfairness in this," said Annie Kidder, executive 
director of People for Education. 

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