LITTLE ROCK – Legislators today will consider whether the state should oversee the process firms use to place foreign exchange students in Arkansas. Representatives from at least one company that currently places foreign students in state high schools, as well as from Fayetteville High School, which decided this month to stop accepting foreign students from a Massachusetts firm, where scheduled to appear before legislative committees studying the issue. Sue Madison, D-Fayetteville, asked for the study on placement of foreign exchange students with host families in Arkansas after receiving complaints that some of the students were being placed with families ill-equipped to take care of them. State Department was investigating complaints about placement of foreign students in Arkansas by Education First Foundation of Foreign Study of Cambridge, Mass. Earlier this month, after repeated problems with the firm, Fayetteville High School decided to no longer accept students provided by the company. Madison said lawmakers “need to understand, first, how the process works, the various steps used to find slots for the students in schools and how they try to find families, what is expected of the families and if they are told what is expected of them. read more
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