BOARD TO REVIEW STATUS OF MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS, VOTE ON NEW ACTION PLAN February 13, 2002 A plan to expand multilingual education in Miami-Dade County's public schools will be considered by the School Board today. The three-year plan, drawn by a task force of business and education leaders, recommends ways to give students more opportunity to become multilingual and multiliterate. Among the recommendations: strengthen curriculum, more professional development for teachers and other staff, and strategies promoting the importance of multilingual education to the community. The task force was proposed by School Board Chair Perla Tabares Hantman and approved by the Board in August 2001. "A multilingual and multiliterate workforce is a priority for our business community," Hantman said. "This need continues to reenergize the school district's commitment to high-quality world language education." The Board also will receive a report on the school district's progress in multilingual education since an earlier plan's adoption in 1998. For more information, contact Lourdes C. Rovira, Administrative Director, Division of Bilingual Education and World Languages, at 305-995-1945. ### 02-AMC193JAM Back to News Releases