Mrs Jephson is campaigning for the introduction of a proficiency test for mobility scooter users, to make them for disabled users only, and to have identification on scooters.

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Because California has so many schoolchildren 5.8m of them, of whom 1.5m have only limited proficiency in English it needs, the teachers say, a special test of its own, and not one pulled willy-nilly off the national shelf.

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