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Beloit School District staff present options to restructure dual language immersion program; board to revisit in December
Summary
District staff reviewed an audit of the dual language immersion (DLI) program, presented enrollment, staffing and academic outcome data, and outlined four pathways—maintain, vertically consolidate, horizontally consolidate or sunset the program. No board action was taken; administration will return in December with recommendations.
Miss Martek, a district staff presenter, summarized an audit of the Beloit School District’s dual language immersion program and described four options for the program’s future: keep the program as is; vertically consolidate (two elementary schools, one middle school); horizontally consolidate (DLI at all three elementaries but only Spanish courses at middle/high school); or sunset DLI entirely.
The district’s DLI program began in 2012 and uses a 50/50 instruction model in Spanish and English. Martek told the Teaching, Learning, Equity and Pupil Services committee that DLI also serves as the district’s service-delivery model for multilingual learners (MLLs), and that the district must continue to provide language services under state law when thresholds are met. She said approximately 18.2% (about 951 students) of…
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