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Little Rock School District to launch kindergarten dual-language strands at Watson and Chico
Summary
LRSD will start a year‑over‑year dual‑language kindergarten strand next school year at Watson and Chico (one classroom per school), using an 80% Spanish / 20% English allocation and both one‑way and two‑way models; district plans to grow the program and is working on bilingual teacher recruitment and certifications.
The Little Rock School District announced a dual‑language kindergarten pilot that will begin next school year at Watson and Chico elementaries, district leaders said.
"Little Rock School District is the first in the state to roll out a dual language program," a district administrator told the board, describing an 80/20 language allocation in which students in the strand receive roughly 80% of their school day instruction in Spanish and 20% in…
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