Okay Governor – How About We Actually Do Something that Matters…

- Wait, What?: "Governor Malloy:

Is there extra money in your “Education Reform” package for putting trained Instructional Assistants into every classroom that has ELL students so these children can get the extra help they need to learn? – NO

Is there a pilot program to teach ELL students science and math in their native languages and then use a language appropriate test to determine their comprehension? – NO

Is there an incentive program – not to get people to teach in urban schools – but to attract and train teachers so they are better able to teach these subject matters in English and Spanish? – NO

In all of his speeches and at all of these town meetings has the Governor consistently (or ever) explained these numbers so that the public could understand that his “Education Reform” bill DOES ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the problem of language barriers?  - No

If “Education Reform” was really about preparing Connecticut’s urban children to succeed in a 21st Century world it would look very, very different from what the “Education Reformers” have put forward."

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