Report: Wake Schools Ranks Well In ESL Programs

Thursday, Jun 12, 2008 - 05:57 PM
By Sergio Quintana
General Assignment Reporter
WNCN-TV

RALEIGH, N.C. -- How does the Wake County Public School System measure up to other cities when it comes to educating Immigrant students?

That’s one of the questions posed by a group of Princeton University, who compared Wake schools to systems in Houston, Texas and Seattle, Washington.

The researchers found some very strong efforts at Wake County Schools. Among them is a change this year to include English as a Second Language teachers at every school.

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The school system’s ESL director Tim Hart says it’s a milestone in the way immigrant students are handled.

“It just gets too complicated now with what we have to do to try to bus them to another school to get the service, it makes more sense to get the services available at every school,â€