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From http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2019/02/high_quality_english_learner_teaching_materials.html

High-Quality Teaching Materials for ELLs Is Goal of New Initiative
By Corey Mitchell
February 20, 2019

The Council of the Great City Schools and Los Angeles Unified School District have launched the first phase of a nationwide initiative to improve the quality of instructional materials for English-language learners—and the training for teachers who work with them.

The first products of the partnership are middle school math materials, designed with the goal of preparing more English-learners to take Algebra I by 9th grade.

The council, which represents more than 70 of the nation's large urban school districts, began a purchasing consortium under the premise that the combined buying power of districts that serve millions of ELL students would compel publishers to improve the quality of materials they produce for those students.

...The consortium allows any school district in the nation to join and purchase the materials. More than a dozen districts have already expressed interest, Casserly said.

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