L.A. School Board to Receive Revised Ebonics Proposal
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Los Angeles School Board member Barbara Boudreaux plans to reintroduce her resolution Monday to require mandatory training in Ebonics for all Los Angeles Unified School District teachers.
The proposal differs in only one major way from the one that was shifted to a committee for further study two weeks ago: It does not use the word “Ebonics,” a term combining ebony and phonics that was coined in the early 1970s to describe the speech patterns of some African Americans.
Boudreaux’s new proposal also deletes a reference to any “Niger-Congo” roots of the language patterns, instead describing them simply as typical of people who were the “descendants of Africans enslaved in the United States.”
The board is expected to send the resolution--the latest of more than a dozen revisions--to its instruction committee in place of the previous draft.
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