More Arabic Being taught at Chicago Public Schools

The Chicago public schools will expand its Arabic-language program to three more high schools, thanks to a three-year, $888,000 federal grant announced this morning.

Mayor Daley accepted the grant at Durkin Park Elementary School, 8445 S. Kolin, as he rejected suggestions that the Fort Hood, Texas, massacre could lead to an outbreak of anti-Muslim sentiment.

“I don’t think so,” Daley said. “Every day, in society, someone’s being killed . . . . You don’t blame a group, you don’t blame a society or an immigrant community because of the actions of one group or one individual. You cannot say that.”