New UC LMRI Policy Brief--Resource Needs for English Learners: Getting Down to Policy Recommendations

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded From: lmresearch at lmri.ucsb.edu




 UC Linguistic Minority Research Institute



Resource Needs for English Learners: Getting Down to Policy Recommendations

In 2006 the Governor and the California Legislature commissioned a set
of 23 papers, collectively referred to as Getting Down to Facts,
funded by a consortium of foundations with the objective of
"provid[ing] common ground for understanding the current state of
California school finance and governance." The operating hypothesis
was that with good information on all aspects of the educational
governance and finance systems of the state, efficiencies and funding
enhancements could be made that would improve the achievement of the
state's students, which ranks toward the bottom on national
comparisons. The studies were designed to be more descriptive than
prescriptive, but they were intended to form a basis for engaging
stakeholders in deep conversations about possible policy alternatives.
These studies were released at several forums in the Spring of 2007.

Later that year the Gates Foundation funded several groups of policy
researchers to further develop recommendations that might help the
Governor and the Legislature to act on the vast information compiled
in the initial reports.  This document is an extension of the original
report entitled Resource Needs for California's English Learners,
authored by Patricia Gándara and Russell Rumberger and is the result
of deliberations from several informal meetings and two formal
convenings of major stakeholders in the area of English Learner
education.  Its intent is to suggest a series of policy options, based
on data examined in the initial report, that the state might want to
consider to strengthen the educational offerings provided to
California's linguistic minority students.

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