Schools speak out on English woes
MySA.com: Metro | State: "Lawmakers are trying to cut property taxes and find ways to reform public education, but one of the biggest challenges facing schools is getting scant attention: the ability of students to speak English.
More than half of the state's 4.4 million public school children come from low-income families, and a growing number of them have trouble navigating the English language, according to the Texas Education Agency.
The number of low-income children, mostly from Hispanic and African American families, increases each year. The number of Anglo students continues to decline.
It costs more to educate low-income children and students with limited English proficiency. But lawmakers aren't talking much about that as they struggle to reform the public education system and pay for school property tax cuts.
'They're not doing the kinds of things that's really going to help us do the things for kids that we need to be doing,' said John Folks, superintendent of San Antonio's Northside School District."
More than half of the state's 4.4 million public school children come from low-income families, and a growing number of them have trouble navigating the English language, according to the Texas Education Agency.
The number of low-income children, mostly from Hispanic and African American families, increases each year. The number of Anglo students continues to decline.
It costs more to educate low-income children and students with limited English proficiency. But lawmakers aren't talking much about that as they struggle to reform the public education system and pay for school property tax cuts.
'They're not doing the kinds of things that's really going to help us do the things for kids that we need to be doing,' said John Folks, superintendent of San Antonio's Northside School District."
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