\ Lucy Dowling has a long history of helping area students and their families who speak Spanish as their primary language. A teacher at Lomira High School, she continues to help English Language Learners gain proficiency in English. She recalls the days before school districts offered ELL programs. “It goes back to the years of the corn-canning companies that used to settle in this area and hire seasonal workers for harvesting the corn, peas, etc.,” Dowling said. “Many of those workers were corn ‘braceros’ or ‘hired arms.’ When the canning companies moved to other areas, many Mexican families decided to stay and bring up their families here.

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