Hello (hola): Welcome to increasingly bilingual schools
By Amy F. Reiter
Sunday June 17, 2007
Holly Hart
Third-grade teacher Maricela Corona watches as Jessica Carter reads a story on bees at Leal Elementary School in Urbana.
If it's a Friday during the school year, Iracema Clarke's students are probably speaking English.
But the signs on the wall depict two languages, and the children find Spanish words sneaking into English sentences as they learn about the calendar one February afternoon.
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