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ESAC's goals also include the formation of adepartment, or more realistically, a committeewith curricular responsibilities, like history andliterature or social studies. However, Sommer saidit is unlikely that ethnic studies will become anindependent program...
...doesn't bode well for the state of education in this Union. On June 2, Proposition 227 will be voted on by Californians. The so-called "English for the Children" initiative would largely scrap bilingual education in public schools and replace it with a one-year long English immersion program. The initiative is an attempt to deal with a monolithic educational system that is not sufficiently servicing the limited English proficient (LEP) students it claims to help. (The program at present is so convoluted, it puts the Core to shame.) Unfortunately, the proposed alternative is no less monolithic and carries...
Nonetheless, the proposal has attracted broad support from voters. A poll published in the Sacramento Bee last Dec. 9 reported that nearly seven of 10 California voters favor a proposed ballot measure to scrap bilingual education in public schools and replace it with a short-term English immersion program. More interestingly, though, is the source of support: the poll found approval for the proposed initiative running strongly across all ethnic groups--including 66 percent of Latino voters. The high percentage of supporters among the Latino community is significant, given that the Latino students are the ones who will be most...
That Democrats and Latino parents are coming out in support of the initiative speaks clearly to the failure of the current bilingual program to educate its constituents. Anecdotes abound about students in the bilingual program for six years who were unable to compose a basic English sentence and about the Ninth Street Elementary School, where "English instruction" consisted predominantly of three hours on the playground and in the lunchroom imbuing the English language...
...after four years of battling the critics while rebuilding a once great hockey program, wouldn't it be nice for them to raise their sticks to a crowd of supporters...