Board OKs funding aimed at helping Hispanic students. Maryland

“Academic achievement among the county’s small but growing Hispanic student population has been the focal point of increased discussion and decision making by school officials.

Last week, in giving initial passage to a $554.5 million operating budget, the school board approved funding for two assistants who would work with academic interventions in the villages of Wilde Lake, Oakland Mills and Owen Brown, home to a number of Hispanic families.”

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