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Woburn highlights $267,000 DESE grant and curriculum overhaul for multilingual learners
Summary
Multilingual Learner Coordinator Rania Caldwell told the school committee the district used a roughly $267,000 DESE grant to buy high-quality ESL materials and licenses, added coaches and interpreters, and reported gains in student language progress and full compliance with DESE monitoring.
Rania Caldwell, the district’s Multilingual Learner (ML) coordinator, told the Woburn School Committee that the district received "about $267,000 in grant funds from the Department of Education to purchase those resources" and has invested heavily in materials and implementation supports for English learners.
Caldwell said the district purchased roughly $250,000 in instructional materials — textbooks and student-facing resources — and licenses that will support students for six years. She said the district has 14 ML teachers at the elementary level, eight at the secondary level, and added two ML coaches last year…
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