The Manteca Unified School District’s Shasta and Nile Garden elementary schools are in a county Office of Education pilot program to recognize English learners with the test scores and recommendations that show they have mastered their new language. Condit calls the program CHAMPS, for Children Achieving Multiple Proficiencies, and he hopes to spread the program across the county, starting with the rest of Manteca Unified next year. In California, about a quarter of public school students are classified as “English-language learners,” and San Joaquin County’s percentage is a few points shy of the state number. American Business English/ESL: The Fundamentals

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