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Multilingual enrollment rises; language department requests two elementary coaches
Summary
The Revere multilingual and world languages department told the school committee the district ranks second in the state for percentage of English learners making progress on ACCESS in 2024 and asked the committee to add two elementary language‑development coaches to expand classroom coaching.
Jennifer Lavelita, director of the multilingual and world languages department, and assistant director Chelsea Banks updated the Revere School Committee on Jan. 21 about enrollment, assessment outcomes and curriculum expansions for multilingual learners.
Lavelita said multilingual students now represent a substantially larger share of the district and reported that Revere ranked second in the state among districts with 1,000 or more English‑learner students for the percentage making progress on the 2024 ACCESS English‑language assessment. “We are 2nd in the state for the 2nd year in a row for the percentage of students making progress,” Lavelita said, and she gave the district rate as…
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