Editorial: Valuable help for immigrants

Immigrants need all the help they can get to learn English, it is a hard language to learn. Toyota is to be commended for this program. - - Donna Poisl

Language skills: City schools are using a $600,000 Toyota family literacy grant as a positive way to help immigrant families.

by editorial staff

Three city elementary schools are participating in a forward-looking program to help non-English speaking Hispanic students and their parents improve their English language skills.

If the effort matches the success other cities have experienced with the program, it will ease the path toward higher student achievement and ease their parents' path toward assimilation into American society.

Memphis applied for a $600,000 Toyota grant, which is coordinated by the National Center for Family Literacy. The program focuses on the needs of Hispanic and other immigrant families on a nationwide basis.
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