Doctoral candidate Dalvin Butler serves the Hawaii Department of Education as a secondary teacher. Dalvin Butler is experienced at developing practices and procedures used to effectively educate students with special needs, including English-language learners (ELLs), at all levels of proficiency. Below is some of the data collected on ELLs.

1. Dalvin Butler

2.  Doctoral candidate Dalvin Butler serves the Hawaii
Department of Education as a secondary teacher. Dalvin
Butler is experienced at developing practices and procedures
used to effectively educate students with special needs,
including English-language learners (ELLs), at all levels of
proficiency. Below is some of the data collected on ELLs.
1. ELL students participate in assistance programs to
ensure they become proficient enough in English to meet the
academic achievement standards required of all other
students.
2. During the 2014-15 school year, 9.4 percent (4.6 million)
of public school students in the United States were ELLs.

3.  3. Approximately 1.25 million students were identified as ELLs in
1979.
4. The percentage of ELL public school students increased in 35
states between the school years of 2004-05 and 2014-15.
5. In 2014-15, 77.1 percent of all ELL students had Spanish as their
home language. The next most common home languages among
ELLs were Arabic, Chinese, and Vietnamese.
6. Just 2.5 percent of teachers with ELL students have a degree in
English-as-a-second language, bilingual education, or a related field.
And only 30 percent of teachers with ELLs in their classes have
received training in teaching English-language learners.