New Jersey: Hillsborough school board to consider policy declaring English official district language

[Harold Schiffman]

Hillsborough school board to consider policy declaring English
official district language

By PAMELA SROKA-HOLZMANN
STAFF WRITER

The Board of Education plans to discuss Monday, Nov. 10 whether to
consider a policy declaring English as the district's official
language. The discussion initially began in October when board member
Frank Blandino saw signs posted in Spanish at one of the district's
elementary schools. Blandino, who also serves as the township's
municipal prosecutor, had questioned the signs, saying that English
should become the district's official language.

Blandino had asked the Board of Education's policy committee to review
the matter further. Superintendent Ed Forsthoffer said Monday, Nov.
10, that he checked on the signs and learned they were being used as
part of the foreign language curriculum. Forsthoffer said students in
grades K-12 study either Spanish, French, German, Italian or Latin.
The earliest a vote could be taken on the policy would be during the
Board of Education's next action meeting scheduled at 7:30 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 17 at the Auten Road Intermediate School on Auten Road.

http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20081110/NEWS/81110039



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