With families in the midst of choosing elementary schools for their children, a Cape Verdean Kriolu-English dual language option at the repurposed Lilla Frederick School on Columbia Road is a new option available for K1 students when it reopens this September.
The program is believed to be the first Kriolu-English language offered anywhere, including in Cabo Verde, where the people’s language is Kriolu, but the official language is Portuguese.
Said Joelle Gamere, chief of the Office of Multicultural and Multilingual Education at Boston Public Schools (BPS), “It will open with a K1 classroom that has a Cabo Verde dual language strand. We’re anticipating 20 students in that classroom…