- LOS ANGELES TIMES
Friday, September 18, 1998
- Community News File / Santa Monica
School Gets Charter Status to Continue Bilingual
Ed
The state Board of Education has voted to give charter status to a school in the Santa
Monica-Malibu Unified School District, allowing it to continue teaching students in both
Spanish and English.
Becoming a charter school will allow Edison Language Academy, which has about 400
students in kindergarten through fifth grade, to maintain its dual language curriculum,
although most bilingual education programs in the state were prohibited by passage of
Proposition 227.
Lori Orum, an administrator at Edison, said: "100% of our teachers were behind the
charter, and our whole parent community."
The decision also allows the school to continue offering language-immersion instruction
to about 200 students at John Adams Middle School and Santa Monica High School, Orum
said.
Edison is the only school in the Santa Monica-Malibu district that has applied for
charter status.
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