Dual Immersion Academy aims to make students flourish in Spanish, English - Salt Lake City

“With an eye on the people, not the produce, Julia Barrientos recently went shopping for students at the Super Mercado de Las Americas.

As director of the states first dual-language immersion charter school, she was trying to spread the word to Spanish-speaking parents that the school was public, free and a way for students to flourish in two languages.

Near the carniceria and a magazine rack with People en Español, Barrientos made her pitch to moms for whom charter schools are a foreign concept in a foreign language. But learning Spanish at school is not always what parents want for their children. “

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