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U.S. students forced to go to Spanish speaking schools : Another city falls

Austin trustees dual-language program

Pilot program would start in 2010, could cost about $700,000.

By Melissa B. Taboada
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF


Tuesday, December 15, 2009

The Austin school board late Monday unanimously approved starting a pilot dual-language program next school year.

In addition to helping Austin students become proficient in two languages, such a program could help boost enrollment in some of the district’s underenrolled schools, district administrators said.

Dual language differs from traditional bilingual or English as a Second Language programs, which aim to teach English to non-native speakers. In dual-language classrooms, all students are taught in English and a second language, with the goal that they become fluent in both.

 

 

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