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Speakers urge SLPS to reinstate free swim lessons; counselor asks delay to newcomer-program change
Summary
Public commenters asked the board to allow a swimming-lessons program to resume and urged the district to delay a policy change that would shorten newcomer supports from two years to one year.
Two members of the public addressed the board during the moved-up public-comment period, urging the district to either restore a swimming-lessons program or delay a planned reduction to the newcomer program timeline.
Velma Bailey told the board she and others have run a no-cost swimming lessons program for district children for two years and that more than 100 charter students had signed up for lessons this year. Bailey said she believed…
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