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Local educators hope to increase efforts to reach out to ethnic and bilingual students next year through an upgraded multicultural education program.
District 60 school board members have approved a plan to increase the number of bilingual and ethnic administrators, teachers and counselors, improve the district’s Spanish language counseling program, introduce a Spanish language hot line and improve communications among bilingual program parents.
The district’s teaching staff is 79 percent white, 10 percent African-American, 9 percent Hispanic and 0.6 percent Asian. The student population is almost equally divided among whites, African-Americans and Hispanics.
