Nearly 75 percent of California's English-language learners in grades 6-12 have been in the state's schools for seven or more years and still fall short of enough fluency in English to succeed academically, a new report finds.
Using a groundbreaking law that requires the state to define and identify "long-term English learners," and for school districts to collect and report data on such students, Californians Together, a nonprofit research and advocacy group, released new state data that show that 350,000 middle and high school students across California are long-term ELLs.
