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The School District of Lancaster’s newest proposed revisions to its school attendance zone boundaries have raised concern about communication and student wellbeing from some Smith-Wade-El Elementary School parents.

When: School District of Lancaster school board meeting, Feb. 8.

Solia Matute and her husband, Jeff Eshleman, notice more than a two-year age difference between sons Freddy and Sammy Eshleman. Freddy, 8, speaks, reads and writes his mother’s native Spanish. Sammy, 6, sometimes stumbles through the language, even though his parents speak it at home. The difference can be attributed to School District of Lancaster’s Dual Language Immersion program, the Lancaster couple says. As part of the program, Freddy has learned lessons at Wharton Elementary in Spanish and English since kindergarten. He starts third grade in the fall. Sammy, who starts first g...

When: School District of Lancaster board meeting, May 19. What happened: Lancaster resident Deborah Siegrist broke into sobs as she begged board members to fund and expand the Dual Language Immersion program after a consultant’s report concluded the program, which began in 2009, should change or be phased out because it’s not meeting objectives. Quotable: “As you can see, I’m emotional,” Siegrist said. “The program has impacted my family dramatically.” At issue: Several parents, community members and students spoke in favor of the program after The Center fo...