Riding the bilingual bus – Phoenix-Talent staff learn ways to make Hispanic students feel more welcome – Oregon

When school officials talked with Hispanic parents last fall about how the Phoenix-Talent School District has been supporting English- language learners, they heard reports that some pupils were being harassed on school buses.

“There was a perception that discrimination was going on in both ways between white people and Hispanic people,” said Teresa Sayre, Phoenix-Talent schools instructional services director.

Officials in the district serving about 2,700 students — nearly 15 percent of which are English-language learners — wanted to find more ways to promote cultural understanding among staff and students and make the campuses more welcoming. School buses seemed like a good place to start, they said.”*

*From: www.mailtribune.com
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