{"id":13300,"date":"2017-02-21T14:09:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T06:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=13300"},"modified":"2017-02-21T14:09:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T06:09:42","slug":"la-high-schools-might-have-filipino-classes-by-fall-of-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/02\/21\/la-high-schools-might-have-filipino-classes-by-fall-of-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"LA high schools might have Filipino classes by fall of 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Middle school and high school students (Grades 8-12 in the Philippines) in Los Angeles, CA might be learning more than just the standard Spanish, French, and English classes once their school board gets proper funding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13304\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/02\/screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/02\/screenshot.jpg 600w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/02\/screenshot-290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/02\/screenshot-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the United State\u2019s second largest school district, is considering adding Filipino and Tagalog language programs thanks to an ethnic studies mandate and a state law that expands language classes in California.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LA school board explores Tagalog curriculum in public schools\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WTyTat6LWnM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a report from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balitangamerica.tv\/la-school-board-explores-tagalog-curriculum-in-public-schools\/\">Balitang America<\/a>, ABS-CBN International\u2019s nightly news program, Steve Zimmer, President of LAUSD said that they are looking to include the full scope of history \u201cfor all of our immigrant communities in Los Angeles. So, the study of Filipino and Tagalog language, but also the history and culture and art; that\u2019s what we\u2019re looking to bring in to schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Zimmer, a pilot program can be started as early as fall of 2017, with dual-lingual immersion programs possibly being offered by 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do have teachers who have A-level fluency in Filipino or Tagalog, and starting a class at the middle or high school level is not a difficult thing to do as a language enrichment program,\u201d Zimmer said.<\/p>\n<p>Community leader Grace Barrios, who has lived in Los Angeles for 60 years, approves of the measure, saying \u201cI really felt there was such a need, and with such a big [Filipino American] population in the city of LA\u00a0and LA\u00a0county-wide, that needs to be implemented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balitangamerica.tv\/la-school-board-explores-tagalog-curriculum-in-public-schools\/\">Balitang America<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/coconuts.co\/manila\/news\/la-school-board-explores-inclusion-filipino-language-program-public-schools\/\">Coconuts Manila<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the United State\u2019s second largest school district, is considering adding Filipino and Tagalog language programs thanks to an ethnic studies mandate and a state law that expands language classes in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/02\/featured-14.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13305,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13300\/revisions\/13305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}