Lawrence School Superintendent William Laboy has been under fire for not passing a state-mandated English test. It turns out Laboy is an opponent of bilingual education -- he called it "language apartheid" during his 2000 interview for his current job and was named to Governor Mitt Romney's education transition team last December.
Test scores have gone up during his three-year tenure and he created an immersion program for elementary-school students two years before Massachusetts voters rejected bilingual education in a statewide referendum.
It's starting to look like Laboy is being scapegoated for putting 24 bilingual education teachers on unpaid leave for their failure to pass an English fluency test. More on this story as it develops.
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