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SDL board to vote on what's next for bilingual program after report concludes it's not working


Solia Matute and her husband, Jeff Eshleman, notice more than a two-year age difference between sons Freddy and Sammy Eshleman. Freddy, 8, speaks, reads and writes his mother’s native Spanish. Sammy, 6, sometimes stumbles through the language, even though his parents speak it at home.
The difference can be attributed to School District of Lancaster’s Dual Language Immersion program, the Lancaster couple says. As part of the program, Freddy has learned lessons at Wharton Elementary in Spanish and English since kindergarten. He starts third grade in the fall. Sammy, who starts first grade in the fall, was not accepted into the program. ....

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Community members defend bilingual program at SDL after report recommends its end


When: School District of Lancaster board meeting, May 19.
What happened: Lancaster resident Deborah Siegrist broke into sobs as she begged board members to fund and expand the Dual Language Immersion program after a consultant’s report concluded the program, which began in 2009, should change or be phased out because it’s not meeting objectives.
Quotable: “As you can see, I’m emotional,” Siegrist said. “The program has impacted my family dramatically.”
At issue: Several parents, community members and students spoke in favor of the program after The Center for Applied Linguistics recommended the district spend more than the budgeted $1.2 million to expand the program or shut it down. The report calls for hiring a dual language specialist to oversee operations and to increase student participation from 162 to 225. The board, however, has voiced no plans to end the curriculum and has extended its current funding in next year’s budge ....

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Pandemic Pivots Arapaho Language Program To Virtual Instruction


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The plan to build an immersion program at St. Stephens Indian School in Fremont County had been years in the making. Immersion language programs use various techniques to encourage bilingual learning. This program was going to have three teachers in a classroom of around a dozen kindergartners. The teachers would teach kindergarteners everything they normally do, only half in English and half in Arapaho.
Dr. Tim Rush is a retired professor at the University of Wyoming. He taught linguistics. Rush and the late Dr. Burnett Whiteplume had been working on an immersion program for years.
The late Dr. Burnette Whiteplume and I developed this model 10 to 15 years ago. The Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) liked what we proposed and funded it, Rush said. ....

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