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Partnership between UNG, Hall County Schools helps prepare Spanish speakers to teach
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Jennifer Jaimes works with students at Chicopee Woods Elementary. Jaimes is part of a partnership between the University of North Georgia and Hall County Schools seeking to prepare native Spanish speakers to teach in the Hall system once they graduate. - photo by For The Times
Jennifer Jaimes is only in her freshman year at the University of North Georgia’s Gainesville campus, but she already knows what career lies ahead of her thanks to a unique program that recruits Hall County high school seniors to become educators. “I’ve really learned to love working with children,” Jaimes, who graduated from West Hall High last year, told a packed audience at a Hall County Board of Education meeting last week.
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Update: I-985 southbound reopens after closing due to separate vehicle fire, crash
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Lanes have reopened after a vehicle fire and crash Friday, April 4, caused both southbound lanes of Interstate 985 to be blocked in the Flowery Branch area.
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