Word: programming
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...carry only a 16-man squad at home, pike says he will keep everybody who can meet minimum requirements--"good swimming skills and a knowledge of the game." The coach adds that he will also encourage women to try out for the squad and will emphasize the women's program in the spring...
...Angeles has more than 2 million Spanish-speaking residents. But Mexican Americans are spread all over the state, placing a bilingual burden on small school systems too. Of California's 3.9 million schoolchildren, nearly 10% so far have been defined as limited, or non-English-speaking. The bilingual program suffers from a lack of adequate teachers. Says State Board of Education President Michael Kirst: "We need 9,000 teachers. We only have 5,000, and the demand is growing faster than the supply...
...Dade County, Fla., Spanish was legally considered a second language even before the latest wave of Cuban refugees. There are 54,000 Spanish-speaking students now in Dade County's bilingual programs. But, says Lavona Zuckerman, a member of the citizens advisory committee, "in Miami we have leaned over backward for 20 years to accommodate the refugees. Learning in Spanish has made children feel comfortable in Spanish. Our compassion is making us a nation of ethnic minorities first, rather than Americans first." Proponents of the program insist, however, that bilingual children are doing nearly as well academically as English...
...immigrant children today. For one thing, grandfather often never really learned English in the melting-pot school. For another, he could get a job right out of elementary school. The local political struggle over bilingual schools is fiercest in New York too. A black critic recently described the program as "a Puerto Rican employment program...
Secretary of Education Shirley Hufstedler admits the program needs improvement. The Federal Government's aim, under law, she notes, has always been transition. Where maintenance occurs, it is the result of local or state initiatives. One of the subjects at next week's public hearings is just what sort of federal limit should be set on the number of years a child can stay in the program...