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Wednesday, April 28, 2021 Acceptance could hinge on district financial status each year Recently, the Southwest school district was asked for its policy regarding foreign exchange students, and without a policy to reference, the superintendent spent the last month working with organizations to develop one. Tosha Tilford, Southwest superintendent, said the new policy states that Southwest would accept two foreign exchange students, one from each of the two organizations reaching out to the district. However, the district will reserve the right to either deny the enrollment of a foreign exchang...

Roni Sutton and her husband, Richie, raised three sons into adulthood. But their offspring aren't the only people who call them "mom" and "dad." A dozen other young men and women spread around Earth also address the couple using those terms. That's because the Suttons spent years hosting foreign-exchange students in their Montvale home. More recently, Roni Sutton has levered that experience into a job as "chapter leader" with a nonprofit called Foreign Links Around the Globe, or FLAG. Since 1989, the U.S. State Department-accredited organization has overseen housing, care and education for mo...