Bilingual Study
“Board Confirms Local-Control Policy on Bilingual Study” (April 9) indicates that Prop. 227 “calls for children with limited English skills to be put in mainstream (English-only academic) classes after about one year of English-language tutoring.”
Parents of our 1.4 million limited-English-proficient students would love for their children to have tutors to teach them English. The only tutoring mentioned in Prop. 227 is “community-based English tutoring,” for which $500 million would be appropriated from the general fund over a 10-year period. This would provide free or subsidized programs of adult English-language instruction for parents or other community members who pledge to provide personal English-language tutoring to children with limited English proficiency. (Many of the programs that Prop. 227 would abolish already provide English language development for parents of LEP students.)
DON ROBINSON
Garden Grove
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