Springfield schools teach English to parents in new program

Sep. 25—Springfield City Schools is offering a new program that will teach English to parents of students enrolled in the district. The English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) course, which started Sept. 6 with about a dozen adults, is taught biweekly in the evenings in a 10-week session by an EL curriculum, assessment and student success coordinator. "The goal of the course is to …