The district, the nation's second largest, agreed to a complete overhaul of its English-learning program.
It happened just a short walk from where the charity Skateistan had set up an indoor skateboarding facility where the sisters were among the most frequent visitors - learning English and crafts as well as how to grind a board.
Others insist that the cultural concerns that come with having too much immigration -- people not learning English, changing neighborhoods, etc.
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Under the proposals, parents will be required to take responsibility for their foreign-born children learning English at home, and being able to speak English will be made mandatory in a greater number of public sector jobs.
And he restated his case for giving those already in America illegally a chance to become legal and a shot at eventual citizenship after paying a fine and back-taxes, learning English, working for several years and staying out of trouble.
Their attitude is, we want our kids learning English when they're in first grade -- and we're laying off teachers here in North Carolina?
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To help students master English, you need a high-quality learning environment and very dedicated teachers, proportionate to the student population.
The ideal Ashbery reader is a foreigner or an extra-terrestrial: there can be no more liberating way of learning English than from these wacky, dandified samplings.
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They grasped mathematical concepts quickly and understood English well, she said, but needed more help learning how to apply the concepts to real-world statistical gathering and analysis.
Macaulay took a personal interest in running five new English medium schools which opened in Bengal, a year and a half after the reforms began in 1835 - in a single town in Bengal, he wrote, 1, 400 boys were learning English.
Real reform means establishing a responsible pathway to earned citizenship -- a path that includes passing a background check, paying taxes and a meaningful penalty, learning English, and going to the back of the line behind the folks trying to come here legally.
Real reform means establishing a responsible pathway to earned citizenship - a path that includes passing a background check, paying taxes and a meaningful penalty, learning English, and going to the back of the line behind the folks trying to come here legally.
We know that real reform means providing a responsible pathway to earned citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants who are currently living in the shadows -- a pathway that includes passing a background check and paying taxes and a penalty, and learning English and then, going to the back of the line behind everyone else who is trying to come here legally.
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