Why Hebrew immersion at Sela?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought there was a school that applied for Arabic immersion charter school? Why not make a school that offers several options including Amharic and others. I think the lack of options and leadership at the board to look for school options that can really help serve the most underserved students in the city. It is true population of students in the city that really need the support of an immersion school would benefit more from French, Amharic, Igbo, Arabic. Have those underserved parents been given support to start a school, a lot of this is based on proximity to power and access. Many of those parents may not know how, doesn’t mean they would not want these options for their children, or that they have not tried.

Who would be providing this support and at what cost? The charter board reviews applications. It does not manifest them.

I found the decision letter for Washington Arabic. It seems like the main reason the charter was denied was that the applicant "... was unable to provide information on its systematic approach to student recruitment ... says it will be reliant on a portion of its students being native Arabic speakers ... but did not provide clear evidence of broad interest from
native Arabic speakers ... did not show any evidence that it incorporated community input"

https://dcpcsb.egnyte.com/dl/tfOmtSMPoD/