District websites rarely specify which department or administrator oversees services for English Learners¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2022 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · recheck by 2027: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? In a national protocol-driven search of district websites, the responsible department or administrator for English Learner services was rarely specified, requiring searches across several departments. → Palacios 2022

Evidence¶

Palacios 2022¶

Palacios, M., Kibler, A., Farren Burho, J., Garrett Sandstead, M., Wiger, S., & Woodruff, K. (2022). Who is in charge of English Learner services? Lessons learned from a national co-teaching and collaboration study. WestEd: National Research & Development Center to Improve Education for Secondary English Learners. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED625797

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Protocol-driven website review of 1,934 districts sampled via the Common Core of Data. The review found that "District websites rarely specified which department or administrator oversaw services for English Learners"; contacts were eventually found in departments such as Curriculum and Instruction, ESL, Federal Programs, and Multilingual Services.

"District websites rarely specified which department or administrator oversaw services for English Learners. In order to locate the relevant person in charge of English Learner services, we often had to look through the webpages of several different district departments."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Contact information for district EL leaders is often incomplete, and few web-form or superintendent emails receive responses — related
• English Learner programs and services across districts are led by administrators with varied titles, many without apparent links to English Learners — related
• Districts use no consistent way of referring to English Learner programs and their offices — related