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Parents, teachers and students urge SFUSD to lift Longfellow Filipino program enrollment cap
Summary
Dozens of parents, teachers, students and community groups told the San Francisco Board of Education on June 14 that an enrollment cap on Longfellow Elementary’s Filipino World Language program would reduce access to one of the nation’s two elementary Filipino language programs and harm students’ identity and mental health.
Dozens of parents, students, teachers and community groups pressed the San Francisco Board of Education on June 14 to lift an enrollment cap placed on Longfellow Elementary School’s Filipino World Language program.
Speakers from Longfellow and partners including the Filipino Community Center described Longfellow’s program as one of only two elementary Filipino language-and-culture programs in the United States and said consolidating kindergarten and first-grade classes would effectively shrink or end the pathway. “Capping this program at Longfellow infringes on our children’s right to an education that reflects their heritage,” said Nikki Santiago, a Longfellow…
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