Nearly all Barrington Unit District 220 board members Tuesday approved retaining a Chinese language immersion program that recently lost its federal grant — a decision that was predestined to be controversial.
While parents of students in the fledgling program have demonstrated a rigorous commitment to it — offering to create a nonprofit fundraising agency to support it — others felt the up to $243,000 it could cost the district next year was a threat to staffing to maintain a proper student-teacher ratio in the general curriculum.
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Carl;
Just how much more taxes can we sustain before our houses go under water?