by Krista Dossetti

On Thursday, February 13, 2014, members of the Italian community gathered at the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club (SFIAC) in North Beach to support his Excellency Claudio Bisogniero in kicking off the Adopt An Italian-Language Student campaign.

Bisogniero, who was originally scheduled to speak at the event, was waylaid by weather conditions on the East Coast but managed to address the crowd via video conference. The initiative aims to reintroduce the teaching of Italian through Advanced Placement (AP) courses at public high schools following 2013's Year of Italian Culture in the United States—a program that resulted in over 300 events in major cities in honor of Italian art, food, music and science.

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano