“Program Testing English Fluency Faulted” (Dec. 9), on the new California English Language Development Test, stressed only the difficulties in this new test for almost 1.5 million students. Here are ...

About 44 percent of Orange County’s public school students still learning English passed a state test measuring fluency, figures released Friday reveal. More than 122,000 English learners took the ...

More local students who are learning to speak English scored well this year on tests designed to track their acquisition of the language, state officials said Wednesday. Scores on the California ...

Half of the students learning English as another language in Lake Tahoe Unified School District scored above the intermediate level, prompting a favorable reaction from district officials. But 50 ...

Though the scores of English-language learners continue to rise on California’s English-proficiency test, the rate at which school districts deem students as fluent in English has barely budged in ...

A test for students whose primary language-as reported by their parents-is not English. These students take the CELDT upon initial enrollment and annually thereafter until it is determined that they ...