Parents and Proposition 227

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This paper describes the California initiative know as Proposition 227, which is intended to encourage parents' involvement in their children's education. Proposition 227 involves a state-funded community tutoring program that should bolster English outside of the classroom, involve parents to learn English and encourage their childrens' language skills. The paper also includes criticisms of the initiative, such as parents signing a pledge that they would help their children a certain amount of time with homework. The paper concludes, however, that this was an innovative program that integrated the community into the learning process.

From the Paper:

"After the passage of Proposition 227 in California, in schools and adult education centers across California, more and mothers and fathers set aside household chores, put their preschool children in day care and went back to school themselves. A higher percentage of adults took English language classes to better help their school-age children with homework and study for tests. Their primarily motivation was to either help their family better endure the effects of the end of bilingual education in California's public schools, or to take advantage of Proposition 227's new, state-funded community tutoring program. The proposition set aside $50 million a year for ten years so school districts could provide after-school family literacy programs. The amount of money each district received for adult tutoring was based on a formula using the number of limited English-speaking students per district (Heredia, 1999)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Heredia, Christopher. (4 May 1999). "English for Parents: Literacy programs help immigrants tutor their kids." San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 15 Feb 2007 at http://www.onenation.org/9905/050499a.html
• Parrish, Thomas, Robert Linquanti, Amy Merickel, Heather E. Quick, Jennifer Laird, & Phil Esra. (2002) "Effects of the Implementation of Proposition 227 on the Education of English Learners, K - 12." Wested Online. http://www.wested.org/online_pubs/year2finalrpt.pdf

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