Results of California’s two-part high school exit exam, released Thursday, show that 77 percent of Lompoc 10th graders passed the English-language arts portion in their first attempt as freshmen last school year. Seventy-six percent passed the mathematics section. Those scores match last year’s scores in math but are slightly lower in English – down from 81 percent in the previous school year. But they also show that local students are keeping pace with students statewide, Lompoc Unified School District officials said. But the scores for 10th-grade students who began with English as a second language but were labeled as Redisignated English Fluent Proficient Students, were significantly higher – 91 percent for English-Language Arts and 85 percent for Mathematics, Bass said. “These percentages are extremely high,” Bass said. These are students who used to be classified as English Second Language and have now been redisignated. … It’s a shining spot to look at.” The Standard Deviants - Learn English as a Second Language (ESL) - Possessives, Verb + Infinitive, and the Past

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