This School District Promotes ESL For Academic Performance
One way to achieve that is to continue academic reforms that include elimination of social promotion, longer school days and years at lower performance schools, expansion of the advanced placement and college-level courses at all high schools, double periods of English as a second language instruction for lower-performing ninth-grade students, plus additional math instruction every other day for those students, to name a few.
Perhaps one of the more intriguing initiatives the district has undertaken as part of its academic achievement plan is the expansion of foreign language to include Mandarin Chinese and Latin. This acknowledgment of the need to prepare students for a global marketplace shows the kind of innovative thinking that might lure families back into the city’s traditional public school system.
