When Jeannette Sgambellone found out there was money available for Lakewood Schools to hold an ESL summer school session for the first time, she and her fellow district English as a Second Language teachers rallied into action.

Because the district didn’t know for sure that federal Title 1 funds were available for the program until after school let out in June, the teachers had to go the extra mile to notify families of the opportunity. “We went door-to-door to our families,” said Sgambellone. Because many of the families have little or no English proficiency in the household, the only way to let them know about the session was to tell them face-to-face.

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