Eight years after passing prop 227, teaching English learners is still hard

By Thomas Fudge / Science and Technology Reporter, KPBS Public Broadcasting

Published May 21, 2006 at 9:00 PM PDT

This story was published more than 18 years ago.

Proposition 227 was meant to reform bilingual education and improve the performance of English language learners. Today, eight years later, there's no evidence that English learners are better off. Ho

Proposition 227 was meant to reform bilingual education and improve the performance of English language learners. Host Tom Fudge speaks with reporter Kathryn Baron, who trys to determine why quality education for English learners remains an elusive goal.

The next installment in this six-part series on the challenge of educating English language learners airs next Monday morning on the California Report, here on KPBS Radio.

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Guest:

Kathryn Baron . Reporter for the California report. Her six-part series on the effects of prop 227 began today.