Of the 1.6 million students in California classified as Limited English Proficiency (LEP), just 175,000 are immigrants who arrived in the past three years. Because those who were born here are not counted as "foreign-born" in the U.S. Census or other studies, they are considered by some to be one of the "invisible" impacts of immigration.
Overwhelmingly, students born to immigrant parents in the United States require special attention to learn English because their primary language at home is usually the parents' native language. That's where special programs like the one at Monte Vista come in.
"The program has made an extraordinary difference for children of immigrant families," Ford said. "But the program is open to all the students immigrants or not."
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