Some States With 'English-Only' Laws Won't Offer Tests in Other Languages

Education Week: Florida is among several states gambling that their English-only laws will provide cover from a new federal push on English-language-learner education.

Under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act, states must "make every effort" to develop statewide assessments in students' first languages if they constitute a significant portion of the student population.

But Florida, with its nearly 300,000 English-learners, has shown no interest in translating its state tests into Spanish and Haitian Creole, languages spoken by tens of thousands of public school students in the state.

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