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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5345/A.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='ESL Programs Face Shortages, Learning Loss during Pandemic' data-article-id='5935'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='12167'>Students in English as a Second Language (ESL) programs are a large and growing population in American schools. </span> <span data-start-time='12167' data-end-time='24333'>The U.S. Department of Education says that the number of ESL learners increased by more than 1 million from 2000 to 2020. </span> <span data-start-time='24333' data-end-time='30771'>That is about 10 percent of all students in the country.</span> <span data-start-time='30771' data-end-time='39438'>In states like California and Texas, nearly 20 percent of students are English learners. </span> <span data-start-time='39438' data-end-time='46104'>But “English learners are everywhere” in the country, notes Leslie Villegas. </span> <span data-start-time='46104' data-end-time='53729'>She is an education researcher with the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. </span> <span data-start-time='53729' data-end-time='67542'>Her recent study looked at the percentage of ESL students within each state, as well as the most common languages spoken at home for those students.</span> <span data-start-time='67542' data-end-time='75271'>As the number of English learners grow, there is a need for more ESL teachers. </span> <span data-start-time='75271' data-end-time='83104'>But the U.S. is dealing with a nationwide teacher shortage across all grade and subject areas. </span> <span data-start-time='83104' data-end-time='93646'>And in the next few years, experts expect the shortage to get worse among English language educators, Villegas said.</span> <span data-start-time='93646' data-end-time='102646'>Josie Gutierrez is the assistant superintendent of the Waco Independent School District in Texas. </span> <span data-start-time='102646' data-end-time='111208'>She said the teacher shortage has slowed down the growth of the district’s bilingual program.</span> <span data-start-time='111208' data-end-time='117396'>There has been an increase in state and federal pandemic aid to schools. </span> <span data-start-time='117396' data-end-time='121979'>So money is not the problem, Gutierrez noted. </span> <span data-start-time='121979' data-end-time='126771'>But the supply of teachers has not increased. </span> <span data-start-time='126771' data-end-time='132271'>And schools are “vying for the same supply,” she said.</span> 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