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ELL students joining DVUSD in Phoenix, Glendale nearly doubles

Mandarin speaking students arrive after TSMC announcement

One North Valley school district is seeing a large increase the number of English language learners it is seeing through an unlikely source.

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Gayle Galligan

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Services like Google Translate can help ease the transition of learning English.

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Valley school districts tend to see an ebb and flow when it comes to students needing to learn English as a second language.

One in the north Valley has seen a big boost in the past year thanks to a major economic development project in Phoenix.

In the space of two school years, the number of English language learner students in the Deer Valley Unified School District nearly doubled, and the primary source of that influx is not immigration from the south.

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