BOARD RECEIVES PLAN TO EXPAND MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS February 15, 2002 A plan to expand multilingual education in Miami-Dade County's public schools was approved unanimously by the School Board last Wednesday. 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 last August. "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 received 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-AMC198JAM Back to News Releases