N.C. Counties Offering ESL Classes
Dramatic growth in the Hispanic community has fueled a sudden interest in Spanish for the pre-kindergarten crowd. North Carolina’s Hispanic population now stands at about 600,000, and nearly 10 percent of the state’s population now speaks a foreign language at home. With Spanish increasingly important in the workplace, classroom and community, many parents are eager to give their children a head start on the new language. In Orange, Durham and Wake counties, more than 100 providers offer Spanish day-care programs, according to data from the Child Care Services Association. Many of these are bilingual schools, with some instruction in Spanish and some in English. But growing numbers are true immersion programs, where everything from story time to arts and crafts is entirely in Spanish.
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