Measure allows parents that choice.
Close to 12,000 of those students are in the Los Angeles Unified School District, data provided to The Times on Wednesday show. Though sizable, that number pales next to the about 107,000 Los Angeles students who were in formal bilingual classes before voters last June approved Proposition 227. Preliminary figures reported last week in Orange County showed that of the roughly 150,000 students who are not fluent in English, about 3,000 have returned to bilingual classrooms. Santa Ana Unified turned up the most requests, with more than 2,000. Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified came in second with roughly 1,000.