English learning program excelling
United States: Talking to 10-year-old Dayki Diaz today, you’d never know the self-possessed fourth-grader didn’t know a word of English when she started the third grade last year at Jamaica Elementary School. “She speaks so well — she’s just amazing,” her principal, Paula Levensailor, said last week at the school. Diaz, who immigrated to the United States from Costa Rica with her parents, achieved “intermediate” status after just seven months of English-language instruction. She’s expected to be reclassified as proficient in English when testing takes place in the spring. Diaz personifies the progress of the Lake Havasu Unified School District’s English-language learning program, which recently passed a hard-won milestone by achieving and exceeding state requirements for Annual Measurable Academic Objectives, or AMAOs.
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