| Language programs translate needs of diverse student population
Public school districts are required under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2000 to meet the needs of English language learners, or ELL. In Mississippi, students are tested for their English proficiency - including listening, speaking, writing, reading and total comprehensive - at the beginning of each school year. Depending on their scores, a district can decide whether children need daily English language instruction or weekly monitoring. Rankin County has 10 full-time English language instructors, and of those, one is Egyptian and speaks Arabic. Four others are fluent in Spanish. While it is critical to educate the students and bring them to the same level as their native English speaking peers, it also is important to make sure parents have basic school information translated for them, said Kameron Ball, director of federal programs for the Rankin school district.
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E.J. wasn't surprised when her pregnancy test came back positive."I already felt it," she said. "My body felt confused. It didn't feel right." 7:55 p.m.: Kids having kids: There are many support groups for pregnant teens Jessica Kerman jessica.kerman@heraldbulletin.com .
As Monaghan’s money dwindles, his role expands at Ave Maria
Tom Monaghan is going broke. The founder of Domino's Pizza and mastermind behind the new town and university named Ave Maria has drained nearly all of his liquid assets, he said. “I'm a former rich man," Monaghan said in an interview last month. “It was planned that way. I figured by the time we got this open I was going to be pretty well tapped out and I am at least as far as liquid assets go." Both the town and university of Ave Maria opened this past summer in eastern Collier County. Plans call for 11,000 homes and 6,000 students at build out. The initial development has depended to a large extent on Monaghan's own largesse. Monaghan, 70, sold his stake in Domino's for an estimated $1 billion in 1998, and then dedicated his life to supporting the Catholic church.
Teen badly burned after gang of 4 sets him alight
An 18-year-old was doused with gasoline and set on fire near Burnaby's Cariboo Road secondary school Monday night, in an incident that shocked area residents. RCMP said the victim, a New Westminster resident, was walking along the north side of 16th Avenue sometime after 9:45 p.m. when he was confronted by four males who tried to entice him into a fight. He was then sprayed with gasoline and set alight, police said. His attackers fled down a nearby trail leading to a 10-hectare wood. .
10 Bar workers jailed following brutal assault
A Purley man has been jailed for beating a man so hard with a metal pole that it bent. Ralph Daley of Palamos, Church Road, Purley was sentenced to 18 months for violent disorder at the Inner London Crown Court today. The 45-year-old will serve half the sentence in custody and the rest on licence. He was sentenced along with four other men in connection with a brutal assault outside the Fridge Bar, Brixton on November 26 last year. Frederick Mallefroy, 43, of Kingston Road, Ilford, Essex was convicted in his absence of attempted GBH and sentenced to three-and-a-half years. Victor Carl Reid, 41, of Eamon Casey House, Mostyn Road, Brixton was convicted of violent disorder and sentence to two-and-a-half years in prison.
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