June 10, 2010, Andover Townsman: "Ecoutez! Language lab present now open"

ACE donation, grant pay for addition to AHS curriculum

By Bethany Bray 
Staff Writer

Teacher Christopher Krueger stands in front of his Spanish 5 class, rattling off instructions in rapid Spanish. Students, each sitting in front of a computer screen, put on pairs of headphones. A buzz of conversation, en espanol, fills the room.

So begins a lesson using Andover High School's new foreign language lab, installed this spring and funded entirely by donations. The volunteer and nonprofit Andover Coalition for Education combined money from its fundraising efforts with a grant from the Horne Family Foundation to cover the lab's $128,000 price tag.

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