Bilingual education: Every student learns in English and Spanish at Forest Grove’s immersion schools

Oregon Live – Kelsey O’Halloran

“In the dual language program at Echo Shaw and Cornelius elementary schools, students receive 50 percent of their instruction in English and 50 percent of their instruction in Spanish, with the goal of producing students who can speak, read and engage with the culture of both languages. The Forest Grove School District, with a 50 percent Latino student population, is the most heavily Latino district in the Portland metro area. At Portland Public Schools, by comparison, 16 percent of students are Hispanic or Latino.”(more)