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The state schools superintendent is changing the screening process that determines whether students get extra help with English.

Tom Horne says too many kids are being placed in the daily four-hour immersion course designed to help English learners. Some children are being enrolled in the course because they’re behind academically, not because English is their second language.

Schools are using a series of three questions to determine whether students belong in the immersion class. Horne is telling to schools to simply one of the questions to ask “What is the primary language of the student?” If the answer is not English, the child will be placed in the ELL program.

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