Learning the ABCs … en espanol – Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Tagged: bilingual, children, population“Founded as the nonprofit Rayito de Luz (“Little Ray of Light”) in 1996, the Spanish language immersion preschool started as a bilingual program for American families that had adopted Latino children.
But as North Carolina’s Hispanic population increased by 400 percent during the 1990s, board members began to notice that more and more applicants were coming from English-speaking backgrounds.
“So much of the community is Latin based,” said Paige Zinn, a Chapel Hill mother with two children at the school. “I wanted my children to be able to communicate with that constituency.”"
Source: More information in English / Mas informacíon en Ingles
Fuente Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish
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November 1st, 2006
Fuente Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish
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