The Huron School District has been selected by the Governor Mike Rounds and the State Department of Education as a pilot school developing a program for working with students who speak English as a second language. Huron School Superintendent Ross Opshal (ops-all) met with Rounds, State Education Secretary Tom Oster and Rick Melmer of the University of South Dakota last week to talk about how Huron handles English as a Second Language, and how Huron could make it better….
Opshal says the Huron Schools have a unqiue perspective on school diversity…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2010/09/opshal-2.mp3|titles=opshal-2]Opshal admits that Huron’s model may not work in every school across the state…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2010/09/opshal-3.mp3|titles=opshal-3]The Universtiy of South Dakota will provide data collection and research functions for the pilot program with the Department of Education monitoring the programs progress.