Southeast : School Honored for Language Program
Long Beach’s Whittier Elementary School, the first California school to teach Cambodian children in their own language, has received a statewide award for its 6-year-old Khmer program.
The California Assn. of Bilingual Education has recognized the school with its Seal of Academic Excellence because it recruited and trained Khmer speakers to become credentialed teachers, said Rosalia Salinas, president of the group. It hopes to encourage other districts to use the Whittier program as a model.
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