Budget cuts are hurting many schools and the programs that benefit kids all across the country. Here is another example. - - Donna Poisl
Hernández school could lose citywide status
By James Vaznis, Globe Staff
Ticco Robinson, a science teacher at the Rafael Hernández School in Roxbury, held up two water-soaked lima beans that had doubled in size overnight, eliciting a chorus of "whoa" from the entranced third-graders. The students then began guessing the weight of the beans in grams: "Ocho?" "Diez?" "Veinticinco?"
For more than 30 years, this public school has taught science, math, and other subjects in Spanish and English, drawing parents from across the city with its track record of helping students who speak one of those languages become fluent in both while maintaining high test scores.
The Hernández - one of three schools that teach in Spanish and English - is the only one open to students from every Boston neighborhood. Stripping Hernández of citywide status, along with shrinking the student assignment areas for the other two schools, would leave many neighborhoods, including heavily Latino East Boston, without access to any such program.
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