Roughly one in four households in New Britain are at risk of homelessness. Housing and social justice advocates said opportunities were missed to address those needs.
Alicia Smith wanted to help her biracial children connect with their cultural heritage.
Smith, of Aurora, is Black. The father of her two sons is Mexican.
It s why Smith enrolled the boys in a bilingual program at Johnson Elementary School in Aurora. Her 7-year-old, Alphonse Mendoza, started in the dual-language program in kindergarten and now is excelling academically in second grade, while her 6-year-old, Alano Mendoza, is doing well in first grade. I love the program. It is amazing, Smith said. It gives kids, like, a hunger to want to come to school and know something different. They love their teachers.