California School Boards Association Responds to Passage of Prop. 227.SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 1998--"With the passage of Proposition 227, the challenge for our schools will be, given the mandates imposed by the measure, to continue to educate the 1.4 million children in our public schools who are limited English proficient pro·fi·cient adj. Having or marked by an advanced degree of competence, as in an art, vocation, profession, or branch of learning. n. An expert; an adept. ," stated CSBA's president John D'Amelio (Escondido Union High School District). "Our job now is to sort through the policy implications and provisions of this initiative and try to determine how it can best be implemented with the least negative impact on our kids." CSBA CSBA California School Boards Association CSBA Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments CSBA Canadian School Boards Association CSBA California Small Business Association CSBA Canadian Swedish Business Association CSBA Customer Service Benchmarking Australia is examining various options including legal alternatives. Some districts, as a result of the initiative, may be placed in a conflict between statutes contained in the Unz initiative and federal civil rights and other laws. CSBA members, who represent nearly 1,000 local school districts and county offices of education, voted to oppose Prop. 227 at their delegate A person who is appointed, authorized, delegated, or commissioned to act in the place of another. Transfer of authority from one to another. A person to whom affairs are committed by another. A person elected or appointed to be a member of a representative assembly. assembly last winter because school board members recognized that the initiative is not an effective way to implement the reform of bilingual bi·lin·gual adj. 1. a. Using or able to use two languages, especially with equal or nearly equal fluency. b. or any other program for students learning English. Educational leaders strongly believe that local conditions should determine local school policies for students. Now, however, school districts will be required to implement a "sink or swim" approach to teaching children English. "We will make every effort to find ways to preserve what works best for our children within the parameters of this fundamentally flawed flaw 1 n. 1. An imperfection, often concealed, that impairs soundness: a flaw in the crystal that caused it to shatter. See Synonyms at blemish. 2. initiative," said D'Amelio. "The tragedy of this whole initiative is that we set up our children to have one chance to succeed or fail. If any group deserves more chances and more opportunities, our children do." CSBA is a nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. association representing nearly 1,000 K-12 school districts and county offices of education throughout California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). .
CONTACT: California School Boards Association, Sacramento
Mina Fasulo, 916/371-4691
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