School struggles to fund Spanish program

The program costs $200,000 annually to maintain, Mrs. Paschal estimated. A state grant covers $110,604 of the cost, but those funds dwindle each year.

Earlier this year, Georgia lawmakers transferred $325,000 from the state’s foreign-language instruction fund, essentially eliminating funding for second-grade foreign-language instruction. In previous years, legislators also eliminated funding for kindergarten and first-grade instruction at the 22 Georgia elementary schools offering a foreign language class.

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