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- All Subjects: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
- Creators: Napolitano, Janet
- Creators: Morrison Institute for Public Policy
- Status: Published
ContributorsGrant, Michael, 1951- (Host) / Napolitano, Janet (Interviewee) / Public Broadcasting Service (Broadcaster)
Created2006-01-18
DescriptionAn interview with Governor Napolitano concerning her budget proposal, attempts to improve education programs for English language learners, and immigration issues.
ContributorsGrant, Michael, 1951- (Host) / Napolitano, Janet (Speaker) / Schriro, Dora Bess (Interviewee) / Public Broadcasting Service (Broadcaster)
Created2006-01-26
DescriptionSegments on the Arizona government's failure to solve the English learner funding issue and the Department of Correction's search for funding to retain officers. Guests include Linda Lopez, Assistant House Minority Leader; Representative Tom Boone; Dora Schriro, Director of the Department of Corrections.
ContributorsGrant, Michael, 1951- (Host) / Napolitano, Janet (Interviewee) / Whitaker, Matthew C. (Interviewee) / Public Broadcasting Service (Broadcaster)
Created2006-02-02
DescriptionSegments on John Shadegg's political withdrawal, an interview with Governor Napolitano concerning continued fines for the lack of English learner programs in Arizona and predictions of an early and bad wildfire season, and one of the Valley's leading civil rights figures (Lincoln Ragsdale).
ContributorsGrant, Michael, 1951- (Host) / Napolitano, Janet (Interviewee) / Montgomery, George M. (Interviewee) / Public Broadcasting Service (Broadcaster)
Created2006-03-02
DescriptionSegments on an interview with Governor Napolitano concerning the English language learning issue at the State Capitol and funding for national guard troops on the border, and severe drought in Arizona.
ContributorsGrant, Michael, 1951- (Host) / Napolitano, Janet (Speaker) / Lovett, Clara M. (Clara Maria), 1939- (Interviewee) / Public Broadcasting Service (Broadcaster)
Created2006-03-22
DescriptionSegments on how Arizona should improve K-12 education, English language learning, women in the Arizona workforce and a statewide symposium to prepare women in the workplace. Guests include Senator Toni Helen; Representative Linda Lopez, Assistant Minority Leader; Dr. Clara M. Lovett, Women's Group Board of Directors.
ContributorsMorrison Institute for Public Policy (Author) / Arizona Indicators (Project) (Publisher)
Created2010-01-01
Description
Many Arizona students speak a language other than English at home. Read a new analysis of how these non-English home language students perform on the Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS) test relative to their English home language peers.
ContributorsJimenez-Castellanos, Oscar (Author) / Combs, Mary Carol (Author) / Martinez, David (Author) / Gomez, Laura (Author) / Morrison Institute Latino Public Policy Center (Publisher) / Arizona Indicators (Project) (Publisher) / Morrison Institute for Public Policy (Publisher)
Created2013-03
Description
The report is both comprehensive and timely, with ELL-related discussions presently taking place in the Legislature that would remove ELL from the throes of political ideologies and return oversight to the State Board of Education. It notes the economic impact on all of Arizona if ELL programs and funding are not improved.