NBC NEWS: New York is failing non-English speaking students, report finds
In just the last decade, New York’s Multilingual Learners (MLL) students have grown by almost 20 percent — they now make up 9 percent of the state’s student population.

The roughly 237,000 MLL students in New York are mainly concentrated in New York City, #Yonkers and upstate cities such as Syracuse.

FALLING BEHIND

Only 13 percent of the state’s MLL or ELL students are proficient in math and 5 percent are proficient in English in New York state assessment tests

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/new-york-failing-non-english-speaking-students-report-finds-n977086