Laughing out loud....you should have read further:
A Poor Job?
The proposal asserts that "the public schools of California currently do a poor job of educating immigrant children ..."
This attack on public education is unjustified. In the last decade, the burden on California's school system has increased incredibly, and schools have done as well as could be expected with the resources they have:
1. California has the worst school libraries in the country. California is next to last in terms of books per student (White 1990) and dead last with respect to the number of librarians per student (Snyder and Hoffman 1995).
2. The number of limited English proficient (LEP) students in California has increased from about 600,000 in 1987 to about 1,300,000 today.
3. California's public libraries have declined in access and quality. McQuillan (1995) notes that book budgets in public libraries in California have been cut by 25 percent since 1989, and the number of hours public libraries are open has declined by 30 percent since 1987. Children's services have been hit the hardest by these cuts.
4. McQuillan (1995) also notes that the absolute number and percentage of school age children in poverty have increased dramatically in California. California ranks 41st out of 50 in the percentage of children living in poverty, and there was a 25 percent increase from 1989 to 1993 in the number of children in poverty in California. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reported that California ranks near the bottom of the country in the percentage of homes with more than 25 books.
I wasn't aware that this is something to be proud of.
AI
