Spanish-language resources help parents deal with challenges of distance learning [edsource.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 9/22/206:22 AM

By Betty Marquez Rosales, EdSource, September 21, 2020

While California school districts and counties confront the learning challenges of the pandemic, education organizations are developing new guides for Spanish-speaking parents to help them navigate distance learning.

In California public schools, about 40 percent of students speak a language other than English in their homes, and over 80 percent of those students speak Spanish, with 18.6% classified as English Learners.

But, it’s the parents that educators knew they needed to reach, and it was obvious there wasn’t enough information that was easily accessible for Spanish-speaking parents.

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