MEXICO GIVING SCHOOLS BOOKS.Byline: Rachel Uranga Staff Writer The government of Mexico is donating 27,000 textbooks, novels and other literature in Spanish to more than 40 school districts in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County to help reduce high Latino dropout (1) On magnetic media, a bit that has lost its strength due to a surface defect or recording malfunction. If the bit is in an audio or video file, it might be detected by the error correction circuitry and either corrected or not, but if not, it is often not noticed by the human rates, officials announced Wednesday at Glendale's Edison Elementary School Edison Elementary School is the name of many primary schools, with most of them named after Thomas Edison. They include:
The program, sponsored by the Mexican consulate in Los Angeles, follows a similar effort launched with the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. earlier this year. ``We are shouldering and giving support to this effort, acknowledging the presence of numerous kids coming from Mexico,'' said Ruben Beltran, Mexico's consul general consul general n. pl. consuls general Abbr. CG A consul of the highest rank serving at a principal location and usually responsible for other consular offices within a country. in Los Angeles. The books, designed for first- through sixth-grade students, will be placed in libraries at schools across the county, including Glendale, Burbank, Lancaster and Palmdale. The donated books will be used as learning supplements and will not be integrated into the school districts' curriculum, Beltran said. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. state figures, 23.6 percent of Latino students in the Class of 2002 dropped out of L.A. Unified high schools. The program seeks to get students interested in reading at an early age and encourages parents to take the books home and read to their children. ``They serve as a bridge,'' said Shelly Spiegel-Coleman, coordinator of the multilingual academic support unit at the Los Angeles County Office of Education. The county has hundreds of thousands of English-language learners who cannot understand English textbooks, she said. The donated books will help children understand math, science and other subjects at an earlier age, Spiegel-Coleman said. The books will also help parents, many of whom do not speak English, preview the material with their children. Education officials say parent involvement in early education is a key indicator of student success later on. ``The books will help a great deal in helping students make the transition from their native language and into English,'' said Vic Pallos, a spokesman for the 29,000-student Glendale Unified School District The Glendale Unified School District is a school district based in Glendale, California, United States. The school district serves the city of Glendale, portions of the city of La Cañada and the unincorporated communities of Montrose and La Crescenta. , whose student body is 25 percent Latino. Rachel Uranga, (818) 713-3741 rachel.uranga(at)dailynews.com |
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