Schools were “highlighting the enrichment part of it, the foreign language part of it, as opposed to the dual [language], the collaboration, the partner language,” said Santibañez. “That heritage aspect of it would be highlighted less.”
Recommendations in Santibañez’s brief include increasing transportation options for students who live further away and opening dual-language programs in neighborhoods where English learners live.
These factors were taken into account at Brockton Public Schools, in Brockton, Mass., which started off with a two-way dual-language program focused on Spanish in 2002.
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