Danville Area School District officials are adding an additional Spanish teacher to double the number of classes for elementary school students — without increasing the staff size.

HIGH POINT — Eyes focused on their papers, a class of Allen Jay Elementary kindergartners practiced their reading pronunciation last week. “Wuh-tuh-luh-suh,” they read aloud to themselves, connecting how letters look with the sounds they make.

 Growinng up, Richard Carranza's parents spoke only Spanish at home.  The son of Mexican immigrants, Carranza said though his parents were bilingual, they opted to focus on Spanish at home, so assured were they that he and his brother would learn English at school.

Katherine Nelson is an alumni of Arizona State University's School of International Letters and Cultures. Now she is studying law at ASU's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at ASU.