Munger Mountain Elementary School in Jackson may serve as a cutting-edge example for dual language immersion spreading to other schools statewide. Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction Jillian Balow told Jackson Hole Radio yesterday that there are currently three or four other schools in the state that have entered in similar programs. She says there is a host of other schools interested in also implementing such a program.
“Jackson is a couple years ahead of most communities in Wyoming in-so-far as your students are a bit older and they’ve had a few more years under their belts. But you think about those students gaining college credit for the high school language course that they take because they’re so advanced…thinking about, and not just the English as first language students, but also the Spanish as first language students.
Balow says such a program doesn’t cost that much more money-wise to implement, and the pay-off is great for the students who stay in the program. She says Jackson educators have been very benevolent in offering their expertise and lessons learned to other communities across the state interested in pursuing such a program.
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