As Barrington Community Unit School District 220 officials learned the federal government eliminated the $1.5 million Foreign Language Assistance Program grant the district had received to support the Chinese Immersion program, the district must now grapple with how to keep the program going.
Parents came out in droves, leaving standing room only at the school board’s regular meeting Tuesday night at Barrington High School, as parents involved in the program lobbied for ways to keep the program running.
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