{"id":13488,"date":"2025-09-10T17:22:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/?post_type=article&p=13488"},"modified":"2025-10-20T10:09:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:09:22","slug":"comptroller-finds-profound-failures-in-city-services-for-english-language-learners","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/ur\/articles\/comptroller-finds-profound-failures-in-city-services-for-english-language-learners\/","title":{"rendered":"Comptroller Finds \u2018Profound Failures\u2019 in City Services for English Language Learners"},"template":"","class_list":["post-13488","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-afc-in-the-news","topic_tax-immigrant-students-english-language-learners"],"acf":{"component_standard_hero":{"":null,"excerpt":"","short_description":"","button":{"":null,"link_type":"page","page":{"title":"\u0622\u0631\u0679\u06cc\u06a9\u0644 \u067e\u0691\u06be\u06cc\u06ba","url":"https:\/\/citylimits.org\/comptroller-finds-profound-failures-in-city-services-for-english-language-learners\/","target":"_blank"},"file":null,"title":""},"image":13489,"disable_share_icons":false},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"CityLimits\u00a0<\/strong>| The office of New York City Comptroller Brad Lander found \u201cprofound failures\u201d in English Language Learners\u2019 ability to access services and programs designed for them at the city\u2019s public schools.\r\n\r\nAn audit released Monday found that a \u201ca significant percentage\u201d of the school system\u2019s English Language Learners (ELLs) hadn\u2019t received the services they\u2019re legally entitled to, such as required courses or a minimum number of instructional minutes.\r\n\r\nThey have also been denied other legally mandated services, the audit found, such as being identified as ELLs through the Home Language Identification Survey, being tested and placed through the New York State Identification Test for English Language Learners, and receiving a bilingual education or access to an English as a New Language program.\r\n\r\nWhen asked, New York City Public Schools (NYCPS, formerly the Department of Education) refuted the findings, stating that the report included students who were enrolled for less than 10 days, meaning they couldn\u2019t be identified as ELLs or take the exam to assess their skills.\r\n\r\nThe Comptroller\u2019s Office emphasized, in response to NYCPS objections, that the audit results were shared with the department on several occasions and that education officials did not criticize the figures and methodology or ask for revisions during that process.\r\n\r\nEducation advocates declined to comment on whether the data is accurate or not, or whether the comptroller\u2019s office did a good job reviewing it.\r\n\r\n\u201cAll I can speak about is our experience on the ground,\u201d said Rita Rodriguez-Engberg, director of the Immigrant Students\u2019 Rights Project at the nonprofit Advocates for Children. \u201cWe see families that we serve who are not provided services on time, students who are not identified on time, parents who have never been invited to the mandated parent meeting that they\u2019re supposed to have.\u201d\r\n\r\nAdvocates were surprised to learn that 40 percent of students sampled by the comptroller\u2019s audit were taught by teachers who do not have the full qualifications to teach ELL.\r\n\r\n\u201cI was most shocked that teachers were not qualified because that\u2019s just something that we, as advocates, and on the side, parent advocacy, we don\u2019t have access to that information,\u201d said Rodriguez-Engberg.","":null,"settings":""}}],"relationships":{"":null,"article_type":[83],"topics":[27],"misc_topics":false},"misc":{"search_results":{"":null,"excerpt":"","featured_image":13489}}},"yoast_head":"\nComptroller Finds \u2018Profound Failures\u2019 in City Services for English Language Learners - 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