A Piatt County School district has recently been test-running some new initiatives that they are now planning to make permanent. 

Monticello Schools Superintendent Adam Clapp explains that over the last year, the district has been piloting some new electives into the middle school curriculum, all of which he says were extremely popular with the students who participated in them. 

The new classes were so well-liked that Clapp indicates they will be making the courses permanent and expanding them to seventh graders, in an effort of expanding the district's offerings for middle schoolers. 

The expansion of the Spanish program sets the district up for the incoming State mandate, which will require students to take at least two years of Spanish before graduating. Clapp does feel that districts statewide will struggle to find more Spanish teachers as that regulation rolls out. 

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