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Longfellow parents, teachers and students urge SFUSD to lift Filipino program enrollment cap
Summary
Dozens of Longfellow Elementary families, alumni and staff told the Board of Education on June 28 that an enrollment cap on the school’s Filipino language program (described by speakers as one of two in the nation) is inequitable and threatens the program’s survival; the board heard requests for the Executive Placement Center and superintendent to reverse the cap.
A sustained block of public comment at the June 28 board meeting was devoted to an enrollment cap imposed on Longfellow Elementary School’s Filipino language/Willes program. Dozens of parents, teachers, alumni and students described the cap as an existential threat to a culturally specific language and heritage program and asked the district to remove it.
Doug Pansiano and multiple Longfellow…
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