This school program helps new immigrants who are between 17 and 21 years old. They don't know enough English to go to college or get a job. And not enough for high school either. - - Donna Poisl
By DANIEL P. BADER, Observer-Dispatch
UTICA — Dima Zhuk, 18, has it a little better than some of his other classmates.
The refugee from Belarus had 11 years of education before coming to the United States. He just needs to learn English.
Zhuk is one of 23 students in the beginner class of the Utica City School District’s Newcomer’s program, an intensive English as a Second Language course for 17- to 21-year-olds that is held during the day at the Underground Café, the after-school teen center on Washington Street.
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