Campbell County School District trustees voted unanimously recently to implement a Spanish dual-language immersion program at one of their new schools.

The program will begin when the new Stocktrail Elementary School opens in the fall of 2016, according to the district. 

The new program will start with two kindergarten classes and two first-grade classes, but will expand to grades two through six in later years. Placement for students in those grades has not been decided. 

Students will spend half the day learning in Spanish and the other half in English. So far, 50 parents have enrolled their kindergartners and 45 have signed up their first-graders.

Keri Shannon, an expert on bilingual education who also speaks fluent Spanish, has been hired to lead the school.  

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