Reading, Writing and Learning in ESL: A Resource Book for K-12 Teachers, MyLabSchool Edition (4th Edition) When the Lee County School District begins classes Monday, it expects about 800 new students who speak Spanish, Haitian-Creole, Portuguese or some other language — not English. That represents one in five of the 4,000 additional students Lee schools expect to welcome, bringing the projected enrollment to 82,100. It also means 8 percent of the district’s students have a lot of work to do to catch up to their English-speaking peers.

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