Issues in state funding for bilingual education |
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| Authors: | F Howard Nelson |
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| Institution: | (1) College of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA |
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| Abstract: | This essay focuses on the incentives and disincentives for local school districts created by state bilingual education funding policies. The programmatic and management concerns important to assessing the effects of funding formulas include: (1) student eligibility for bilingual education, (2) the minimum number of eligible students in a school building or school district for which the state mandates programs, (3) appropriateness of the educational program, (4) student transition into regular classrooms, (5) instructional unit size, (6) record keeping requirements, and (7) program and fiscal planning effects. Through efforts to efficiently and equitably utilize scarce resources, account for their use, and control costs, however, policy makers necessarily confront many unresolved research questions and policy issues. The relationship between funding and bilingual education controversies centering around measuring language proficiency, establishing entrance and exit criteria, and determining effective instructional strategies are reviewed. |
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