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Findings and Recommendations 7 findings
F1
The SAUSD has received no clear guidance for the implementation of Proposition 227.
Related Recommendations (1)
R1
Rely on Education Code 305 and its own close reading of the law in implementing the mandates of Proposition 227. (Finding 1)
F2
The SAUSD has fostered an atmosphere that has encouraged resistance to implementation of Proposition 227 by the Board of Education, administrators, teachers and other staff and parents.
Related Recommendations (1)
R2
Commit itself to complying with the mandates of Proposition 227 and educate its staff and parents both in the requirements of the law and the benefits of English proficiency for their children. (Finding 2)
F3
Parents of SAUSD school children were led into believing that lengthy bilingual education programs rather than rapid English acquisition were in their children’s best interests.
Related Recommendations (1)
R3
Use contact with parents on an individual level, at their committee meetings and at community tutoring sessions to emphasize the advantages of early and rapid English acquisition. (Finding 3)
F4
The SAUSD has instituted elaborate and lengthy programs in bilingual education that impede student progress in the acquisition of English proficiency by devoting too much time to the teaching of Spanish and core curriculum in Spanish.
Related Recommendations (1)
R4
Discontinue its numerous classes in “Spanish language arts” in bilingual and 2Way programs and accelerate the ratio of the use of English to Spanish in the teaching of core curriculum subjects. (Findings 4 and 5)
F5
In the bilingual education programs in the SAUSD, the emphasis on instruction of and in the Spanish language is so extensive that it is, in effect, schooling in a foreign language, parallel to mainstream schools, in which English is just one of many subjects taught.
No recommendations for this finding
F6
The SAUSD has used the waiver program inappropriately, unnecessarily placing many children in bilingual education rather than English immersion and/or mainstream classes in English.
Related Recommendations (2)
R5
Reduce the length and curtail the scope of existing and projected bilingual education and 2Way programs and issue waivers for children to stay in these programs only for the most compelling reasons. (Findings 6 and 7)
R6
Use the resources recovered from the curtailment of bilingual education and 2Way programs in Spanish to establish more English immersion classes in which children from different language
F7
Plans to reform the administration of the waiver process conflict with existing and projected bilingual and 2Way programs, which continue for several years. A response to each finding is required from the Superintendent of the Santa Ana Unified School District and the Santa Ana Board of Education.
No recommendations for this finding
Agency Responses 1
Government agencies' official responses to this report's findings and recommendations. Click on a response to see the structured breakdown.