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Placed on the ballot through the voter initiative process at the hands of Ron Unz, a conservative Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Proposition 227 promotes English-only instruction for students with limited English skills, who comprise more than one fifth of the 5.5 million population. Instead of promising students whose first tongue is not English bilingual education, the new system will force all students not proficient in English into a one-year crash course in the English language. After the year-long course, parents who want to keep their children in bilingual education programs could attempt to do so by seeking...
DIED. ROGER STEVENS, 87, founding chairman of the Kennedy Center; of pneumonia. A successful real estate entrepreneur and Broadway producer (West Side Story, Bus Stop), Stevens helped raise millions to launch the nation's signature cultural center...
...surveys, California voters favor, 2 to 1, an initiative on the June ballot that would dismantle bilingual classes and replace them with a year of intensive English before immigrants are absorbed into the mainstream. The measure, called English for Children, is sponsored by Ron Unz, a wealthy Silicon Valley entrepreneur and former G.O.P. candidate for Governor...
...priority mail from shipper to receiver. An advertising review board rejected a FedEx challenge to the spots last year, but the two rivals remain in litigation. Says UPS chairman and ceo Jim Kelly: "I can hardly imagine that the goal of government should be to put the private entrepreneur out of business...
...countries in the world, how does a U.S. entrepreneur choose the one offering the best entree to his business? For Don H. Barden and his wife Bella Marshall of Detroit, the answer began with a coincidence and a bit of government help and proceeded through years of study and negotiation to a major payoff...