Butchulla may be taught in schools (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

Just a minor correction here.  This article originates from Australia
not Canada, sorry.
Lately, I have been adding the country of origin tag line to news
articles since we are are quite an international group here.

thnx,

Phil
UofA ILAT

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Phillip E Cash Cash
<cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
> Butchulla may be taught in schools
>
> Stephen O’Grady | 12th February 2010
> Canada
>
> HERVEY Bay is poised to pioneer an indigenous education revolution.
>
> A senior officer from the Queensland Studies Authority was told
> yesterday that the Fraser Coast is ready to trial a ground-breaking
> new school syllabus which could place the Butchulla language alongside
> Chinese, Indonesian, German and French as classroom subjects.
>
> Paul Herschell, acting deputy director of the QSA’s teaching and
> learning division, met with Butchulla elders and education leaders at
> the Korrawinga Aboriginal Centre in Hervey Bay to present a statewide
> proposal to formalise the education of indigenous languages.
>
> Access full article below:
> http://www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/story/2010/02/12/butchulla-may-be-taught-in-fraser-coast-schools/
>