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Powers said she has had a major hand in writing legislation to protect children from pedophiles, provide medical insurance for the poor and reform bilingual education. Bills rarely make it through the legislature without wholesale changes and legislators such as herself ultimately signing on as co-sponsors, Powers said then, adding that many of the issues transcend the partisan divide. (Greenwich Time)
Together (1/14/08) Jan 15, 2008
Mary taught Spanish for two years after transferring from teaching Spanish and French for one year at Bartlett High and one year with Anchorage Bilingual Education. In 1982, Mary went back to school at Anchorage Community College for a degree in business administration, hoping to start an independent bookstore. (Anchorage Daily News)
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They see (illegals) using food stamps, in the emergency rooms, demanding bilingual education in the schools. The costs are going up. (Human Events Online)
For Iowans, Republicans for every kind of taste Jan 4, 2008
He expounded on his business background, warned of "global jihad," criticized bilingual education and reminded everyone that "marriage is between a man and a woman.". In turn, Romney's supporters often seem equipped and willing to recite his r. (International Herald Tribune)
Ron Paul on Immigration Jan 3, 2008
They see (illegals) using food stamps, in the emergency rooms, demanding bilingual education in the schools ... They see (illegals) using food stamps, in the emergency rooms, demanding bilingual education in the schools. (Townhall.com)
Emphasis on values Jan 2, 2008
He received perhaps the loudest applause of the evening when he told the crowd he did away with bilingual education as governor of Massachusetts. On a day when rival Mike Huckabee held a press conference to show reporters an attack ad against Romney that he decided not to air, Romney did not criticize or even mention any of his Republican opponents. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Population increases drive California Jan 2, 2008
Immigration itself is the single most important issue to California voters, several polls have established, and we have seen sharp political clashes over it and such issues as affirmative action and bilingual education. Growth and cultural change, moreover, when coupled with economic evolution, drive both the state's perpetual budget crisis and the angst over extending health insurance to millions of working poor families. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
English First Political Victory Fund: 'Our choice Is Mitt Romney' Dec 28, 2007
"In 1971, Massachusetts became the first state to make bilingual education mandatory. Yet when Romney ran for governor of Massachusetts in 2002, he courageously endorsed a referendum calling for repeal of that failed policy. Both Romney and the children of Massachusetts won that year," Boulet said. A former Massachusetts bilingual education teacher, Dr. Rosalie Porter, said at the time, "the cities with the heaviest enrollments of Latino children, the families that have had experience with... (PR Newswire)
Turnover rattles Vista school district Dec 28, 2007
wrote on Dec 27, 2007 12:18 PM:" The root of the problem is the No Child Left Behind act which CUTS funding for schools whose students don't perform up to expectations. Pressure is being put on school and staff to work miracles with some of the districts least capable students. The kids are not stupid...they just need more bilingual education to acheive the expected marks. Of course no one wants to pay for bilingual education (or even say that word on a Vista Campus) so you get what we have now.... (North County Times)
Q&A: Tom Tancredo on How He Changed the Presidential Race Dec 24, 2007
And Colorado passed a bilingual education bill and all of a sudden I started seeing kids getting taken out of classes and put into Spanish speaking classes even when they couldn't speak a word of Spanish themselves but their last name was Hispanic ... Well, we eventually found out that it was a political issue much more than an educational one and so eventually I ran for the State Legislature and won and started fighting the battle there and every year I would move to strike funding for... (Time.com)
Lodi Unified's 'Equity Initiative' Dec 23, 2007
On this list is the Concept 6 year-round schedule, whole language, new math and bilingual education. So call us respectful skeptics. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Tancredo Quits GOP Race, Endorses Romney Dec 21, 2007
The grandson of an Italian immigrant, Tancredo says he became angry about illegal immigration because of bilingual education requirements in schools. He says those requirements turned out students who were illiterate in two languages. (CBS News)
UHCL School of Education honors its outstanding students Dec 18, 2007
" Karriker is often asked to provide professional development training for teachers and administrators district-wide, and she is currently working to provide distance learning for the teachers. Demonstrating leadership abilities, Karriker served on two technology committees including one which developed long-range technology plans for the district, and the second being the district's strategic planning committee. She has also held multiple leadership positions within the Killeen Chapter of the... (Pasadena Citizen, TX)
Romney is the kind of leader we need Dec 14, 2007
He instituted English immersion in the public schools and abolished the old bilingual education system. This is a real record of achievement that Romney is running on across the country. (Boston Globe)
Fresno teachers OK contract Dec 14, 2007
The contract gives union members -- teachers, librarians and speech therapists -- a pair of pay raises worth more than 8% total and annual stipends for those who have credentials to teach special education, bilingual education or speech therapy -- areas the district has identified as critical. Superintendent Michael Hanson said Thursday that he was pleased that a deal was near. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
A principal who make his school work Dec 13, 2007
Almost 20 percent of the students require bilingual education. When they are not in class, they are out on the streets, where crime is often part of the environment. (West Roxbury Transcript, MA)
FISD Ponders Ways To Boost Test Scores Dec 13, 2007
Parents want their children to speak English, Mrs. Rivera said, stressing that bilingual education was not used as a way to keep students from learning English. Board members also heard a presentation from Hill Country Special Education Cooperative Director Debra Wilks, who explained the program and talked about the changes in how students are evaluated in the program. (Fredericksburg Standard Radio Post, TX)
Somerville school scrambles for solutions Dec 11, 2007
Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe)
Special Mass ceremony honors the Virgin Mary Dec 10, 2007
Maria Luisa Zamudio, administrative coordinator of the ISUs Bilingual Education program, lived in Mexico City, the site of a basilica in honor of the Virgin. She described people crowding the streets days in advance of the Dec. 12 celebration, which is a national holiday in Mexico. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
EASTER ISLAND STONE HEADS ARE 'DYING' Dec 7, 2007 RUBEN NAVARRETTE JR.: Spanish language creates tension Dec 5, 2007 Are Latinos Learning English Quickly? Dec 4, 2007 Suing English-only employers Dec 4, 2007 FUSD, teachers clear hurdle Dec 4, 2007 Veterans news update Nov 29, 2007 Romney casts himself as the man to fix illegal immigration Nov 27, 2007 What should Rudd do in his first 100 days? Nov 26, 2007 New principal bringing more parents to Garfield Nov 26, 2007 China holds exhibition to display progress in minority language research Nov 24, 2007 The Culture: E Pluribus Unum, Comprende? Nov 22, 2007 Tancredo runs against illegal immigration in long-shot campaign Nov 14, 2007 • School Restructuring Planned Nov 13, 2007 Still a chance to woo Hispanic voters Nov 12, 2007 Strong Beginning For Dual Language Class Nov 9, 2007 Consultant will chart direction for FUSD Oct 25, 2007 Latino poet shines spotlight on Lawrence Oct 18, 2007 Punishing Clarence Thomas Oct 8, 2007 SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE NEWS BUDGET Oct 4, 2007 English Language Learners program grows Oct 2, 2007 Panelists weigh educational gap Oct 1, 2007 Hispanic forum addresses educators Sep 30, 2007 Sunshine retirees embrace political action Sep 29, 2007 The Learning Partnership publishes action agenda on education Sep 26, 2007 Our crashing racial diversity Sep 19, 2007 Tensions over MassBay shake-up Sep 17, 2007 Spanish bilingual schools no longer just for remedial education Sep 17, 2007 Not at home with English Sep 13, 2007 Richardson slams Spanish debate for mandating 'English only'... Sep 11, 2007 Commentary: 'English-only' debate lost in translation Sep 11, 2007 The Jefferson Award: Presented to Martha Martinez Sep 10, 2007 Dems' questions in espaol, answers in English Sep 10, 2007 Citizens and community leaders say race relations have improved but still a work in progress Sep 9, 2007 Who pays the price when politicans take action? "Someone Else" Sep 7, 2007 Goldwater refused to exploit a sex scandal involving a top LBJ assistant Sep 5, 2007 More U.S. schools teaching in 2 or more tongues Sep 4, 2007 Why I'm A Conservative Aug 31, 2007 State faults teachers of English learners Aug 31, 2007 Graves addresses District 6 concerns of national, state issues during listening tour at Bobber Cafe - U.S. borders, immigration, English-only laws were part of discussion. Aug 18, 2007 Executive: Pittsburgh region must embrace diversity as part of its future Aug 17, 2007 Back to school is a year-round process Aug 15, 2007 Getting Immigration Right Aug 14, 2007 School districts travel far and wide seeking prospects Aug 12, 2007 Local ROE gets $79,000 in grants Aug 9, 2007 New Indian Education director gets to work Aug 3, 2007 New principals bring new leadership, ideas Aug 2, 2007 Illegal Alien to America: "I Have an Attitude of Gratitude" Jul 26, 2007 Develop children through critical early education Jul 23, 2007 Immigrant parents struggle to keep their children bilingual Jul 22, 2007 Towns feel effect of Conn. casinos Jul 22, 2007 Educating the Educators Jul 21, 2007 CARLOS FERNANDEZ: Success for All enriches all Hispanics Jul 21, 2007 NewsMax MagazineGet It!Free Offer – Click Here Jul 17, 2007 Immigration the defining difference Jul 12, 2007 Abolish Bilingual Education Jul 12, 2007 Wall Street Journal: Immigration problem is ‘inflated' Jul 11, 2007 DAN WALTERS: Big growth generates big conflict Jul 11, 2007 Immigration: From a Wall Street Journal Perspective Jul 10, 2007 A different immigration perspective Jul 10, 2007 Young Latinos Promote Leadership Jul 9, 2007 Hard Line On Illegals A GOP Loser? Not In View Of An Old GOP Winner Jul 7, 2007 Romney took on 'outsider' role at helm of Bay State Jul 6, 2007 Harvard Economist Tapped To Fix Schools’ Racial Gap Jun 29, 2007 Letters to the Editor Jun 24, 2007 OUSD trustees interviewing superintendent candidates today Jun 23, 2007
" Chile's President Michelle Bachelet has pledged to help preserve Easter Island by passing legislation to create a national heritage institute on Easter. In August, the Chilean Congress passed a bill, granting islanders greater authority over governance, fishing, tourism and bilingual education in Rapa Nui and Spanish. "When Rapa Nui became a candidate for the wonders of the world, it was an alarm bell for authorities to wake up and look at what's going on," Rapu said. Local activists also say... (San Francisco Chronicle)
The great language debate Dec 6, 2007
There was one priceless scene in an episode of the PBS television show American Family where the patriarch played by Edward James Olmos argues that there shouldn't be things like bilingual education and that here in the United States, everyone should speak English ... For instance, there are plenty of Hispanics who oppose bilingual education because they think it hurts kids by making it more difficult to learn English. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Opinion)
For instance, there are plenty of Hispanics who oppose bilingual education because they think it hurts kids by making it more difficult to learn English. Yet at home, many Hispanics switch effortlessly between Spanish and English and make an effort to ensure that their children maintain their command of Spanish. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
IMHO, far too many debates about Spanish-language teaching and bilingual education in California and Arizona are framed the wrong way. Too often, it's all about the burden that Latinos have learning English and the presumption that English is the only "common" language in California when this is not true-- throughout this region, Spanish actually has precedence over English and, following the bitterness of the Mexican-American War, Spanish and English were given equal rights for general use. (Education Week News)
Nevertheless, the EEOC, some Hispanic groups, and a persistent bilingual education lobby in California seem determined to undermine those cultural forces that have helped to integrate newcomers into American society. After all, for interest groups that profit from keeping Latinos in manageable barrios, Gov. Schwarzenegger's advice to immigrants to immerse themselves in English amounts to political poison. (North County Times)
Annual $500 stipend for bilingual education teachers ... Some also would get annual stipends for having a credential to teach special education, bilingual education or speech therapy -- areas of critical need. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Since the 1960s when the federal Bilingual Education Act directed millions of children to be taught in other languages, mostly Spanish, the program has proven to be a flop ... Bilingual education continues today only because it enjoys an entrenched consistency of bureaucrats, administrators, teachers, ethnic activists and other adults who benefit from it ... The American Legion urges Congress to encourage and fund alternative bilingual education programs to serve, as was originally intended, as... (Moberly Monitor-Index, MO)
He vetoed bilingual education measures while he was Massachusetts governor, and he supported a voter initiative to teach public school children primarily in English. Lately, he has called for an end to in-state tuition benefits for the children of illegal immigrants. (Concord Monitor)
The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: Federal Election. Welcome to Sydney Morning Herald Online. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
All of the parents who attended are Latino, and bilingual education assistant Patty Foulkes and literacy coach Marcianne Koetje conducted the meeting in Spanish. Parents learned how children develop reading and writing skills, how to recognize their progress and help them move on to the next level. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
The SEAC said the government was recording the threatened languages of small minority groups and offering bilingual education to protect and rescue these groups' cultural heritage. About 20,000 ethnic minority students each year attend preparatory courses in Mandarin in more than 100 Chinese universities, the SEAC statistics show. (Xinhuanet, China)
Efforts in this regard have included bilingual education, multilingual ballots and now the insistence that a common language is racist and discriminatory ... So why do we have multilingual ballots and bilingual education. (Investors Business Daily)
"Tancredo sees no inconsistencies in his melting-pot roots and his stand on immigration. His grandparents, he said, wanted desperately to assimilate into the American culture, even to the point of forbidding their children to speak Italian. By contrast, he said, today's immigrants resist blending in and are fostering a diverse multiculturalism that he thinks is weakening America.Looking back on his childhood, Tancredo talks openly about the clinical depression that hung over him for years and... (Kansas City Star)
Under the plan, the school will expand to kindergarten though the eighth grade, with a primary emphasis on bilingual education, addressing a crucial need for the district's growing Latino population. Although the restructuring plan was drafted to address the district's performance under No Child Left Behind, Kochol said it has also created an opportunity to provide bolder initiatives in the effort to improve performance. (FOX61, CT)
This is the guy who spouts off about how immigrants should speak English, and we should end bilingual education while his campaign sends out weekly dispatches to Hispanic journalists in Spanish. One wonders: If Romney strips Hispanics kids of their Spanish, how will they read his press releases when they grow up. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Opinion)
Friday November 09, 2007. (Lancman’s office) Principal Lucius Young, rear left, Councilman John Liu and Assemblyman Rory Lancman with parents and students of the dual language program at P.S. 163. (Queens Chronicle, NY)
Others spoke about special education and bilingual education. Overall, everyone was cordial -- a turnaround in behavior from the Oct. 10 board meeting when red-shirted union supporters verbally attacked Hanson and some board members. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
LAWRENCE - He started as a bilingual education lawyer in the Boston area. Then he defended tenants against ruthless landlords in Chelsea. (Boston Globe)
And I've been accused of selling out my own people because I oppose racial preferences and bilingual education. I also support the education reform law, No Child Left Behind, which empowers Latino students and yet which a host of Democratic presidential candidates promised, during a recent Spanish-language debate, to overhaul or scrap. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Opinion)
BILINGUAL (Peritz, Toronto Globe and Mail) -- MONTREAL: Seeking a bilingual education, a growing number of students from Canada's French-speaking province of Quebec are crossing the border to attend English-speaking schools in the United States. 600. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Not only are our numbers growing, the number of students who are beginners is growing, said Block, who has worked for 25 years in bilingual education and still teaches in Newton. Beginners are students with almost no language skills. (Needham Tab, MA)
Attendees broke into groups to discuss bilingual education, ensuring access to post-high school education, parental involvement and disproportionate over-representation of Hispanics in special education programs. In addition to the biases stemming from language and cultural differences in the tests that determine placement in special education programs, the panelists explored other reasons for the skewed placement. (Albany Times Union)
Attendees broke into workshops to discuss bilingual education, ensuring access to post-high school education, parental involvement and disproportionate over-representation of Latinos in special education programs. "We do see a really unequal representation in my school because of people who are being judged by superficial, secondary characteristics," Schenectady school teacher Drew Coffey said. (Albany Times Union)
And issues like crime and development are slowly making room for concerns about schools, especially bilingual education, as young mobile European families leave their home country in search of their chosen lifestyle, often involving a nearby beach, or the promise of a job performing services like plumbing for elder compatriots. "They buy their little house in a quiet village with a lovely landscape, but they don't realize that what attracted them also attracts a lot of other people, and soon... (International Herald Tribune -- At Home)
"It's a testament to their character and to their professional commitment. Yet we need the support of other stakeholders, working together to provide our teachers with the resources to create the best learning environment for all of our students." Already, in Edmonton for example, the school board offers full bilingual education in seven languages: American Sign Language, Arabic, Mandarin, German, Hebrew, Spanish and Ukrainian. More than two dozen schools offer half of each day's programming in... (Canada Newswire)
This triggered in California, more than a decade ago, voter-approved initiatives hostile to illegal immigrants, affirmative action and bilingual education. Although two-thirds of the state's voters are white, the majority of the state's population is of minority and multiracial composition. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Joseph, who emigrated to the United States from Haiti as a young girl with her family, has had a successful career as a sociolinguist and administrator, primarily in the City University of New York system, where she developed bilingual education programs for Haitian immigrant students in New York City public schools. The controversy on campus does not appear to have trickled down to students, many of whom are unaware of the dispute. (Boston Globe)
Spanish bilingual education, however, has primarily been the domain of public schools and aimed at helping immigrant children from Mexico and Latin America surmount their Spanish and move into mainstream English classrooms. Indeed, bilingual education has become a political football in the larger debate over immigration and the incorporation of immigrants into American society ... "I don't think we've embraced the full potential of what bilingual education can be in California," said Centro Vida... (San Francisco Chronicle)
There have been battles over bilingual education, foreign-language ballots and English-only restrictions on business signs. While immigration is the driving force for the state's linguistic diversity, experts said people often speak another language out of choice rather than necessity. (Los Angeles Times)
more tax dollars for their cronies in the teacher's union, and bilingual education. I have a better idea. (The Drudge Report)
No one understands that better than the Latino immigrants who are filling English-as-a-second-language classes and battling the public schools to get their kids out of that linguistic warehouse known as bilingual education. Too bad, that lesson didn't get through to the folks at Univision, which has made billions of dollars trying to establish the primacy of Spanish. (CNN -- US)
"For me, the challenge of bilingual education is to value your native language while acquiring a second language, without having to choose which one is better," said Martinez. "We know that English will give you a chance at a better job.". (San Francisco Chronicle)
Last night's debate focused on core issues for Spanish-speaking Americans, topics that have largely been ignored in previous debates, including the future of Cuba, aid to Central and South America, bilingual education and the plight of Hispanic homeowners who risk foreclosure in the sub-prime mortgage crisis. The moderators were eager to hold candidates accountable for votes that were unpopular among Latinos. (Newsday)
Until 1982, Riley was an elementary school teacher, Title VII project director and bilingual education project director in Rapid City. Riley hasn t been back in Rapid City long enough to have enough interaction with the community to compare race relations today to 25 years ago, but she said she is very positive about moving forward. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
The money saved from the healthcare, welfare, and bilingual education, can go towards the education system and middle class who really deserve a lower cost of health care. The middle class is getting the shaft because most all are paying for illegals. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Carol wrote on Sep 3, 2007 8:14 AM:" Brian, I will speak to your 7:17 post. You have absolutley no understanding of bilingual education--just a racist attitude. Children who continue learning math, science, social studies, in Spanish while they are learning to speak Englisn LEARN MORE. It's common sense. Research proves it. At the end, the children are literate in two languages--that's more than you can claim. Sink or swim thinking ends in educational drowning and drop outs. The data proves... (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Not to be confused with controversial bilingual education designed to mainstream non-English-speaking children, subjects taught in a foreign language are designed to make a child fluent in speaking and writing two languages. Most of the children start such classes already in elementary school, or even in kindergarten. (AZCentral -- News)
I oppose the federal government's misguided attempts at social engineering and I would do away with dual-citizenship and bilingual education. While I was at it, I would place the ACLU on the attorney general's list of terrorist organizations. (Townhall.com)
Some schools provided bilingual education to children whose parents did not fill out state-required waiver forms or did not fill them out properly. Some schools shortchange language learners. (AZCentral -- News)
A man asked Graves about his stand on English-only classrooms, referring to Proposition 227, a ballot initiative in California that has outlawed bilingual education in most of the state's public school system. For the bilingual schools, districts hired new Spanish-speaking teachers to adjust to the overwhelming amount of Spanish-only speaking children attending their schools. (Boonville Daily News, MO)
They must "go after workers, find them and attract them to the region," with housing assistance, bilingual education and other services. "A proactive approach is critical.". (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
That wagon happens to be Boerne's eight public school campuses, each school's principal, their administrators and assistants, special education, bilingual education, gifted-and-talented education, content including math, science, social studies, English, reading, foreign language, career and tech and fine arts. It's a vehicle that, because of its size and scope, can scarcely afford to stop moving and, indeed, never does so. (Boerne Star, TX)
And the larger the immigrant intake, the more such reforms as bilingual education seemed simply necessary ... State parties and governors now began to oppose referenda that would go on to overturn preferences or bilingual education by large majorities. (The American Conservative)
Ofelia Madrid The Arizona Republic Aug. 12, 2007 12:00 AM. While recruiting teachers for the Cartwright School District, David Santellanes looked at other booths set up at a Midwest education job fair last spring. (AZCentral -- News)
In 1998, less than 26,000 LEP students were served in Illinois bilingual education programs. That number has increased to more than 160,000 students in 2006. (Princeton Bureau County Republican, IL)
She served as director of the district's bilingual education program from 1981 to 1982. Riley surfaced from a pool of well-qualified candidates, according to superintendent of schools Peter Wharton. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Vargas received her bachelor of arts in elementary education from Trinity University in San Antonio in 1984, and she alter received her master of education in bilingual education in 1991. Deena Hill accepted the position of Executive Director for Special Programs for the 2007-2008 school year. (Pasadena Citizen, TX)
Some of those in the streets steadfastly refuse to learn English -- however long they have been here -- even going so far as to demand "bilingual education" programs in American, English-speaking schools ... Some of those in the streets steadfastly refuse to learn English -- however long they have been here -- even going so far as to demand "bilingual education" programs in American, English-speaking schools. (Townhall.com)
Moreover, bilingual education is on the rise, providing direct access to those wishing to learn and develop foreign languages while at the same time maintain their native language identity. However, despite these laudable efforts, the notion of childhood is still commonly perceived as a period of innocence and naivety, with children still being considered too young to think critically and less knowledgeable about "adult concepts" such as politics, race, sexuality, and critical social and... (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Editorial)
Even bilingual education programs, which Massachusetts voters dismantled in 2002, were commonly designed to help students make the transition to English-only classrooms ... Until now, much of the debate over language has focused on the successful campaigns in Massachusetts, California, and Arizona to end bilingual education in public schools ... Bilingual education was still strong in California when the participants in Rumbaut's study were young, but Rumbaut said English still prevailed. (Boston Globe)
"I like to look at the schools right now and see how diverse they are," said Beth Brunet , the bilingual education coordinator for Norwich public schools, where last year's students spoke 24 languages. "It's very normal for Haitian students to sit next to Hispanic students and for them to have a conversation in whatever language.". (Boston Globe)
It is, however, past time to adopt a healthy suspicion of experimentation in the classroom, whether those experiments are in the area of sex education, bilingual education, or exciting new ways to read and do math. Perhaps only in the context of modern American education could Alfie Kohn, an educational theorist, assert, I am suspicious of the very word disciplineperhaps because of its proximity to bondage. (Townhall.com)
One of the key strengths of Success for All -- and one that I firmly believe that Fresno schools should adopt -- is a bilingual education program. Success for All's Lee Conmigo program offers a reading curriculum similar to that of the English program in cities such as Philadelphia, but uses a curriculum sequence and materials appropriate to Spanish language and Latino culture. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Why Joe Lieberman "alone holds the balance of power in the U.S. Senate The shrewdest political strategist in Washington the "Darth Vader" of reform The top Democrat who called President Bush a "loser" Sen. Chuck Grassley tells NewsMax the secret to an effective congressman Chuck Schumer or Hillary Clinton which New York senator is more partisan? The congressman known for his "explosive temper" The best path to power: playing hardball or compromising? Rep. Rahm Emanuel's "winning"... (Newsmax)
Even Bush, who scorns the "cultural condescension" of those who say Islam and democracy are incompatible, has dramatically increased funding for bilingual education. For that matter, it is hard to imagine Bush, or any serious American presidential contender, speaking about Islam the way Howard did following the 2005 Sydney riots. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Bilingual education has become a program by the adults, of the adults and for the adults ... If bilingual education worked better than a common sense approach such as English immersion, it might be worth the cost ... That would be Herman Badillo who now calls himself an ex-liberal, and laments the fact that bilingual education has become monolingual. (Human Events Online)
I wrote columns about doing away with bilingual education in California. I'm very much against that. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Our growth is driven by immigration and high birth rates among immigrant families, which makes California the globe's most culturally complex society with myriad points of friction (illegal immigration, affirmative action and bilingual education among them). And yet, we need infusions of young immigrants to provide workers for an expanding economy, fill government coffers and meet the needs of a rapidly aging white population. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
On the blog now: Updated at 8:43 AM. Updated: 8:25 AM 07/10/07. (Townhall.com)
For most conservatives and Republicans, The Wall Street Journal long has been a trusted source of political and economic enlightenment. When it comes to immigration policy, however, many conservatives disagree fiercely with The Journal, which strongly supported the immigration reform bill that was killed in the Senate last month. (Human Events Online)
Topics like immigration and bilingual education will be up for discussion. Latino's are the fastest growing ethnic group in the U.S. Organizers said with that comes a great responsibility. (R News)
I would also point out that on the same 1998 ballot, there was a proposition (227) to prohibit bilingual education. I was the only statewide Republican to support it, and Lungren was opposed. (Investors Business Daily)
He favored the death penalty and an initiative petition to replace bilingual education with English immersion; she opposed both. O'Brien favored civil unions; Romney did not but endorsed certain rights for same-sex partners. (Deseret News)
Friday June 29, 2007. Harvard Economist Tapped To Fix Schools Racial Gap , Assistant Editor06/28/2007. (Queens Chronicle, NY)
(No, I did not have bilingual education in school either. . (San Francisco Chronicle)
Noonan has also had his fair share of critics, especially on his handling of bilingual education. His strict enforcement of a state law banning bilingual classes drew the ire of some parents in the late 1990s, prompting a federal investigation by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights. (North County Times)
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