So with sfusd as part of a framework weve had a really strong journey targeted multi lingualism starting with the bio Cultural Program in 1975 when we had a proposition pass we provided programs and just you know come employed what we had to do in 2006 the school board formed a resolution to preparing all students for multi lingual world in 2008 the most recently one was simpleminded in 2010 was the resolution around that c lc so take into account the languages we have in sfusd those are all the languages other than english in our district so you as you can see there are over 70 languages those are the biggest cantonese and spanish being the largest and tagalog and arabic if we look at the el languages again mccain necessary and spanish with different percentages but still the same growing population with tagalog and arabic over 60 el languages different pathway we provide a number of them those are the brief definitions in the el Program Guide you have here are 0 more descriptions and
Im kres teen the assistant and joining me is the multi lingual pathway director as well as well, mr. Valentine 0 will be joining us ill be providing a presentation this evening youll have the power point as well as a number of materials for the presentation. So this particular item is a followup to a curriculum meeting in november where the english Language Development curriculum and status was provided with a followup this presentation including the language apathies be provided to the full board to provide Additional Information and more background to the board as a whole so tonights outcome to provide a historic legal context of the action plan for english learns as our fraction for the el services were to zero in and touch on the academic support through the english Language Development and share the pathways under the action plan. Arent those kids cute those are the original class this is the original class from 1970s and budget Analyst Report its Councilmember Bonin been 40 years