The government cash was also to be used for language teachers in primary schools and science and maths teachers in secondary schools.

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Slaughter, whose organization holds seminars on tribal language education and researches best practices for teachers, said she's witnessed a wave of interest in language renewal over the past two decades.

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Money can help speed up the efforts, allowing tribes to hire language teachers or pay for apps.

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The city said its evaluation plans included things like the implementation and use of student feedback surveys as well as specific considerations for teachers who are dealing with students who are English language learners and students with disabilities.

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We have added two English as a Second Language(ESL) teachers, as well as provided staff development on best practices for teaching ESL students.

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Hebrew lessons typically start several years, not several months, before your 13th birthday, and since I had no facility for language in the first place, it was only a couple of weeks before my teachers deemed me hopeless and, instead of teaching me Hebrew, had me performing maintenance chores, such as cleaning the school's blackboards.

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Most of the pupils - known as "talibe" in the local language, Wolof - end up begging on the streets for money and food which they have to take back to their teachers, our correspondent adds.

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