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Statistics:
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Although, Kansas experienced a 76 percent increase in the number of identified Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) students, from 1995 to 1997, the state began the 1997/1998 school year with less than three percent of its teachers endorsed in either
bilingual or ESL Education. -
More than 68 percent of Kansas CLD students are Spanish-speaking.
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The State of Kansas began the 1995-1996 school year with less than 25 teachers endorsed to deliver bilingual education, and less than 200 teachers endorsed to provide ESL education, statewide.
- The composite reading score
of CLDstudents in Kansas schools tends to be at least 57 percent
below the state average for all students.
- CLD students at the national level are:
- Three times more likely to be low achievers than high achievers.
- Two times more likely to be at least on grade level behind in school.
- Four times more likely to drop
out than their native-English-speaking counterparts.
