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Title | Charter Schools Recruit English Language Learners |
Body | From http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2010/01/30/charter_schools_start_recruiting_drive City’s 14 institutions make concerted effort to attract more English language learners By James Vaznis January 20, 2010 More than 150 teachers, parents, and advocates are launching an aggressive drive today in Boston to recruit immigrant families to their charter schools in an attempt to reverse woefully low enrollment of students who are not fluent in English. They will be canvassing neighborhoods with large immigrant populations, handing out fliers printed in Spanish, Chinese, Haitian Creole, and Portuguese, as well as distributing applications. The recruitment drive represents the first coordinated effort among the city’s 14 charter schools to attract more English language learners, a group that has among the lowest achievement rates across the state and that some charter school leaders acknowledge they have not done a good enough job trying to recruit. Read the full article at http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2010/01/30/charter_schools_start_recruiting_drive |
Source | Boston Globe |
Inputdate | 2010-02-14 11:27:25 |
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Publishdate | 2010-02-15 00:00:00 |
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