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. There, stories can once again be read as cuentos and mathematics and science taught as matematica y ciencia. The initial data show Proposition 227 has hit bilingual education much like a tornado hopscotching through a subdivision, obliterating some programs and leaving others virtually untouched. School administrators, most of whom opposed the ballot measure, say the return to bilingual classrooms is entirely consistent with the new law.