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Bilingual coordinator highlights student growth, TELPAS results and community ESL options
Summary
Margarita Garcia updated trustees on Dual Language participation, the Bilingual Early Exit program, and TELPAS performance; principal Crissy Burley showcased students reciting the Spanish alphabet, using sign language, and a bilingual student's English reading progress.
Margarita Garcia, Kaufman ISD's Bilingual Coordinator, briefed trustees on enrollment and participation trends in the district's Dual Language and Bilingual Early Exit programs and summarized TELPAS performance for ELL/Bilingual students.
Garcia highlighted academic growth among ELL students, parent engagement events, and community opportunities for adult education including GED and evening ESL classes. During District Celebrations, Crissy Burley, Principal at Helen Edwards Early Childhood Center, demonstrated student progress in the Dual Language program: "the students did the alphabet in Spanish and used sign language," and one student who began the year speaking Spanish read a poem in English.
The minutes record these program highlights and emphasize parent engagement and community adult-education linkages; the minutes do not include numeric TELPAS scores or exact enrollment counts in the public record of the meeting.
