ESL-Whats the deal with cutting founding for it?

Stephen SwisherPart I: Exploration1. Identify the issue or problem that you plan to focus on in your Inquiry Project. English as a second language, my father teaches at a Chicago Community College and he told me that the enrollment for ESL classes has dropped dramatically due to a new law holding back loans and founds for those specific classes. I guess I would find out what that law is and how it affects the people.
2. What is your personal connection to and interest in this topic? Both my parents have taught English in foreign countries and I am also multi lingual.
3. What opinions do you already hold about this topic? Besides the fact that every citizen of America should speak or learn English, I don’t think the government should pass bills that make it harder for migrants to learn English; on the contrary they should encourage it.
4. What knowledge do you already have about this topic. What are your main questions about this topic? What are you most curious about? I don’t have much, to any knowledge on this topic, besides techniques my parents have told me on how to teach English as a second language. I would like to find out what kind of programs due schools and the government have that help people learn English in the USA and how they go about it? Also what is the wished for outcome? To be fluent or just manageable?
6. How might composition theorists and researchers approach or study this topic? Does this approach differ from those of other related disciplines (such as communication studies)? Well the philosophy would be different, because I imagine in most cases the students would be adults, which calls for a different teaching method. Also the fact that you have to start from scratch and then in a relatively short time are expected to produce results calls for a more hurried approach.
7. How could you research this topic outside the library (for example, through interviews and/or observations)? Talk to people in the ESL field and to administrators, also try to contact some ESL theorists. Part II: FocusingWrite an initial claim, or an open-ended question, to guide your research on this topic. Make it specific but exploratory. Remember that a good claim opens up an area of inquiry about a topic; a claim should invite evidence, support, and debate. Should it be required by academic establishments or the government to teach future American citizens the English langue or should it be up to the individual?