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Parents, teachers and students press ISD 196 to create a Spanish immersion pathway
Summary
Parents, students and district teachers urged ISD 196 on Oct. 7 to create an elementary Spanish immersion option, citing local demand from 4 area immersion daycares, research on bilingual outcomes, and the burden families face commuting to out‑of‑district programs.
Parents, students and district educators used the school board’s special‑communications period on Oct. 7 to urge ISD 196 officials to develop an elementary Spanish immersion program that would follow children from existing Spanish immersion daycares into the district’s schools.
Claire Opsahl, a resident and ISD 196 teacher, told the board that a petition supporting a district immersion pathway had gathered 305 signatures in a month and described 400 children enrolled in four Spanish immersion daycares inside district boundaries who currently have no in‑district continuation option. ‘‘There is nowhere in our district for my sons to go to continue their Spanish immersion education,’’ she said.
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