Language education gets last-minute boost
SB41, once sought an extended school year incentive, but was substituted close to midnight to give $750,000 to create a dual language immersion pilot for elementary schools and expand other schools' critical language pilot programs.
"The program has been very, very successful," House sponsoring Rep. Brad Last, R-St. George, said.
The money would fund six elementary dual immersion programs in Chinese, six Spanish pilots, two French pilots, and one Navajo pilot o something multi-cultural school bosses were pushing for early in the session.
"We have 3,000 students waiting to take this class o we need to pass it before midnight," sponsoring Sen. Howard Stephenson, R-Draper, said at 11:59 p.m.
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Ute Language should be considered the first Language in the state...
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To the Legislature: Thanks for doing something good. We, and our...
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I suspect that the Navajo program is intended to help those of Navajo...
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