What's happening?
Alejandro Mojica, PfISD's director of multilingual education, said in an Oct. 5 workshop that the district's population of students designated as emergent bilingual has increased to about 27% of the district's overall enrollment over the past three school years, even as overall enrollment has declined.
Terms to know
Students who fall under the emergent bilingual designation are defined by the Texas Education Agency as students in the process of learning English, and having another language as their primary language.
About the program
Students who are designated as emergent bilingual receive a variety of services from PfISD including multilingual education, mental health, translation and interpretation services. Additional details about the program are available here.
