California To Increase Oversight Of ESL Services.

The Los Angeles Times (9/12, Watanabe) reported this weekend that education officials in California “agreed to boost oversight of school district efforts to help the state’s 1.4 million students learning English” after a judge ruled last year that the state “had failed to compel numerous school districts to provide” that help. According to the Times, state officials agreed to a new process in which they will better identify students in need of English language education, better inform districts on those students and their obligation to provide help, and bolster oversight.