To get into Florida colleges and universities, you have to have studied —or speak— a second language. But Florida students don’t have to take foreign language classes to graduate from high school. So in a part of the state where most families already speak a second language, one school is leaning on parents to make sure their children stay bilingual.

“Classes are in English, but every parent has signed a contract to speak Spanish with their kids for at least 30 minutes a day, most days of the week. It’s an unusual effort to keep the students of Immokalee Community school from losing their Spanish — something that often happens between generations of immigrants.” Read the complete story here.