Hillsboro Migrant Summer School brings in Mexican teachers for culture lessons

Article author: 
Andrea Castillo
Article publisher: 
OregonLive.com
Article date: 
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Article category: 
Oregon Issues
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Osorio Pacheco was one of three elementary teachers from Mexico brought to the Hillsboro School District in June under a federal migrant education program. The teachers integrated lessons of culture into the Migrant Summer School's regular curriculum focus of reading, writing and math.

The Bi-national Migrant Education Teacher Exchange Program is part of an initiative that started in 1976 to help migrant students in California. The departments of education in Mexico and the United States have since partnered to improve schooling for children who travel frequently between the two countries.

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