The need for a bilingual psychologist emerged after nearly 100 multilingual students enrolled this summer, showcasing the rapid influx of new learners in the district.
Patricia Balbuena-Rivera, Suffern's multilingual education director, emphasized that the district's numbers during planning were completely different from the actual enrollment figures they faced.
School districts struggle to recruit qualified bilingual teachers, worsened by a lack of incentives and the absence of certification exams for many less common languages.
A state comptroller's audit revealed over 110,000 English language learners in New York's public schools, and numbers have likely increased due to new asylum seekers.
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