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B-164031(1) 1 (1973-02-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaegv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oRESTRICTED t _ to be released outside t neraA A~counting Gffice e. : . on the basis of spectf .rovF l by the Office of Co2ngre2ional Relations, a rec Ia kept bYN O D.C aM8 A nch, 0 A 5 WJASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 iRELEASED B-164031(1) FEB 1 5 1973 Dear Senator Kennedy: -, 1, In accordance with your request of July 19, 1972, and subsequent discussions with your office, we reviewed selected projects under the Bi-Li . d uoati-4pzogram authorized by title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. As agreed, we determined the type of instruction being received by students in these projects, particularly the amount of class time devoted to teaching English as a second language and to other academic subjects in the dominant language of the children. We did not evaluate the effectiveness of the projects. We reviewed a total of 28 bilingual education projects which were conducted by local education agencies under grants awarded by the Office of Education, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The pro- jects were located in urban and rural communities in Arizona, California, New Mexico, New York, and Texas. Although several ethnic groups were served, the ma rit __f theprjects were directed toward Mexican- American children whose dominant language was Spanish. The 28 projects involved a total of 105 schools with a total pro- ject enrollment of 16,644 students. We visited aftd obtained information from 46 of these schools with a total project enrollment of 7,954. A summary showing for the schools we visited the number of students by dominant language and the type of classroom instruction on a percent- age basis is presented below: Program enrollment Language Number of dominance students Instruction time _______ Second language instruction Spanish English (or other)1 Academic subjects taught in Spanish English (or other)1 Spanish (or other)1 Bilingual English 3,135 2,904 1,915 29% None None None None 16% 26% 71% 75% 'Other dominant languages of students served by projects include Navajo/Zuni, Chinese,'and Portuguese (one project each). 45% 29% 9%

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