Utah: Funding sought to preserve native languages

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded From edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


Desert Morning News



Funding sought to preserve native languages



To that end, the State Board of Education is seeking $275,000 to
preserve and revitalize Utah's indigenous languages to help narrow
achievement gaps. Utah's CRT state test results show a 45 percentage
point difference between the performance of Navajo and Caucasian
students on language arts, 48 percentage points on math and 57
percentage points on science, according to data state associate
superintendent Brenda Hales presented to the Education Appropriations
Committee Thursday.



Full story:

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695249973,00.html

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