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Southeast Polk reports growth in emergent bilingual students, wins grants for translation technologies
Summary
District staff reported a rise in emergent bilingual enrollment, described program staffing and supports, and announced a Meta-funded grant for headsets and interpretation devices to improve family engagement and in-person interpretation options.
Dr. Laird, the districts Learning Supports Coordinator, told the board the number of emergent bilingual students has grown substantially and described the districts ESOL supports, staffing and recent grant awards.
Dr. Laird said the ESOL enrollment figure on the presentation was 466 based on the prior Fridays count and that she had added four more students that morning, noting the number used in slides reflects the last official count. "Within our ESOL program ... we really work on 4 language…
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