This is coming from our ELL director.

I've had a long talk with my principal. It's a complicated situation. CA requires the 30 minutes per day, regardless of the number of students. We don't have a large population of ELLs at my school - about 15 out of 90 students at each grade level, most have a good speaking command of English. We have had a parent complaint - the teacher has documentation showing she did follow the mandate. But that puts us under more scrutiny. The biggest issue is that this group for the school has not been making adequate growth for the last 4 years. Certain classes have had growth, but as school we're not doing well with this population. Teachers will say that it's the group of kids, but that doesn't fly with 4 years worth of data that says we're not progressing.

Clearly, what we've been doing isn't working and it needs fixing.

Veronica