All School District schools and offices will be CLOSED for students and staff on Thursday and Friday November 27 & 28, in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday.
Decades of research point to three basic instructional models:English as a Second Language, sheltered instruction and dual-language model. The School District of Philadelphia’s Newcomer Learning Academy, “is really the only option for teenagers who know little or no English,” where students generally spend six months to a year and then transfer to a regular school….