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“Dreamers Academy is the first dual-language school in Sarasota,” said Head of School Cathy Rodriguez. “We do our 50/50 model...we teach one day in English, and one day in Spanish, all content areas.”
1 month ago Share After years of struggling to find a location, the dual-language charter expects to open for the 2021-22 school year. After several years of struggling to find a campus, the bilingual charter school Dreamers Academy has found its new home within the 10-acre Temple Beth Sholom campus. Now that the school has found a location, it's moving ahead with plans to open for the 2021-22 school year. The Sarasota County School Board approved the charter school in late 2018 with the idea of opening in time for the 2019-20 school year, but throughout the following th...
Geri Chaffee The past year has been very difficult for most of our families, with daily choices that seem to fluctuate from bad to worse. For example, the much-anticipated milestone of having little ones start kindergarten was usurped from many parents, who were presented with three options: Distance learning. In-person learning that would require masking and socially distancing 5-year-olds within Plexiglas stations – not to mention constant hand sanitizing, new rules and the risk of COVID-19. Delaying kindergarten until the following school year. Not surprisingly many parents decided to ...