44% of O.C. English learners pass test

May 21, 2010, Fermin Leal, The Orange County Register About 44 percent of Orange County's public school students still learning English passed a state test measuring fluency, figures released Friday reveal. More than 122,000 English learners took the California English Language Development Test, administered this spring. Statewide, 40 percent of the state's 1.3 million students still learning English passed … English learners make up about a quarter of the 500,000 students enrolled in county public schools...