Because California has so many schoolchildren 5.8m of them, of whom 1.5m have only limited proficiency in English it needs, the teachers say, a special test of its own, and not one pulled willy-nilly off the national shelf.Mr Wilson has a reason to be impatient.
The biggest categories include one for special education, which totals $1.85 billion this year; one for construction, which totals $1.2 billion; and one to address "extraordinary needs," like a high number of students with limited proficiency in English.
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The executive order creating the commission pointed to problems faced by members of the military, overseas voters, voters with disabilities and voters with limited English proficiency and special needs.
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16% of the students had limited English proficiency and 22% of students qualified for special education.
The CREDO study acknowledged this fact in its finding that the traditional public schools it looked at served four and a half times as many students with Limited English Proficiency and one and a half times as many special-needs students as did the charter schools.
Many have limited English proficiency.
The Gates Foundation's mistake was in believing that there is a silver bullet to solve the problems of inner-city schools, which enroll large numbers of students who are poor, have limited English language proficiency, and are more likely to require special education.
