Guatemalan immigrants attend an English as a Second Language class in 2016 at a migrants' assistance center in Stamford, Conn.Several national Latino education and civil rights groups are asking President-elect Joe Biden to push back in-person proficiency tests for students learning English as a second language amid Covid-19 concerns.
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the League of United Latin American Citizens and other groupsto Biden's education transition team on Monday, saying that in-person assessments can impose health risks for English-language learners, or ELLS. The concern comes after over 30 states have set windows to test such students’ English proficiency, starting as early as Jan. 4. With over 3.
, director of the Educational Opportunities Project at the lawyers’ committee, wrote. “These tests can wait.”
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