Parents urge district: Hire bilingual teachers. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

“When the Philadelphia School District opened a new prekindergarten program in a Latino community this year, it advertised for bilingual instructors.

But no one applied, district officials said.

So the Head Start program at Luis Muñoz-Marin School is staffed by English-speaking teachers - and that has enraged parents in the North Philadelphia community….”

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