DCPS international teachers?

[Anonymous]

This might affect DCPS bilingual programs!
https://wapo.st/42iZ674

[Anonymous]

It costs about ten thousand per teacher for each sponsorship. With cuts for DCPS central and a negative DC budget outlook overall, there are probably lots of programs that will be eliminated or greatly reduced.

[Anonymous]

Welp there goes our bilingual schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It costs about ten thousand per teacher for each sponsorship. With cuts for DCPS central and a negative DC budget outlook overall, there are probably lots of programs that will be eliminated or greatly reduced.

Definitely--such as summer school or aftercare and before care

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Welp there goes our bilingual schools

I don't think you understand. You seem to be referring to two way Spanish immersion programs that teach both English dominant and Spanish dominant students in the same room.

Bilingual classrooms teach one group of kids, typically Spanish speaking, but sometimes Urdu or Polish, etc. They learn how to read and write in their first language and then increasingly learn English as the years go on, usually with increasing amounts of time spent on instruction in English.

The US has laws that state that if there are more than 19 students in a grade level who speak one particular language, schools must provide "bilingual education" as I described above. If schools can't get bilingual teachers to teach those rooms, they'll have subs all year. It won't be good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Welp there goes our bilingual schools

I don't think you understand. You seem to be referring to two way Spanish immersion programs that teach both English dominant and Spanish dominant students in the same room.

Bilingual classrooms teach one group of kids, typically Spanish speaking, but sometimes Urdu or Polish, etc. They learn how to read and write in their first language and then increasingly learn English as the years go on, usually with increasing amounts of time spent on instruction in English.

The US has laws that state that if there are more than 19 students in a grade level who speak one particular language, schools must provide "bilingual education" as I described above. If schools can't get bilingual teachers to teach those rooms, they'll have subs all year. It won't be good.

NP and I assume those laws you speak of will be ignore or overturned by conservative judges in no time.

[Anonymous]

I assume you mean the Dual Language programs that are popular in some areas of the city

[Anonymous]

what a strange article? they weren't promised a green card but they're responding like they were?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:what a strange article? they weren't promised a green card but they're responding like they were?

Sounds like they were, but I agree that this is an unfinished piece of journalism. A journalist should seek to augment these obviously confusing accounts from individuals with research (and interviews) on the public program that underpins/underpinned it, and some background research on this very unusual (employer-sponsored) path to a Green Card.

[Anonymous]

The rich schools can fundraise and get green cards for their teachers. It's a struggle for other schools though.