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There are more problems with bringing immersion to WMS than just long bus rides.  You need to make sure you have sufficient administrative staff who can speak Spanish. You need to make sure there are Spanish books in the library and a librarian who can recommend and talk about the Spanish books. You need to make sure that there is sufficient EL staff. WMS right now only has 3% of students who are EL so they don't have the current staff to support an immersion program. It is unclear to me if the ELL staff will then move to WMS since they are still needed at Gunston without immersion.  APS has determined that they want to support more ELLs though Immersion. In fact, APS moved EL from world languages to immersion. Many current immersion teachers also provide ELL services for both immersion and kids in the regular program. By removing immersion from Gunston and placing it in WMS you are impacting the education of students in the general education population that use ELL services. At least if the program is moved to Kenmore there is a high % of EL kids there who can then benefit from the services the immersion teachers offer. Assuming they go! If they don't go, Kenmore, with its higher ELL population, hopefully has a staff that can support immersion already. Essentially Kenmore already has a structure that can adopt immersion due to its high percent of Spanish EL students (50%!).

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