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Joseph, who was a nurse in Haiti, says her inadequate language skills prevent he from getting a better job. She has been taking English as a Second Language (ESL) classes but is frustrated by the state of her finances...
...student body; in the district they form 59% of the total, up from just a fifth in 1978. Of the school's 3,000 pupils, nearly half are enrolled in bilingual or English-as-a-second-language classes. "This is very much a port-of-entry school," says Bilingual-ESL Program coordinator Pat Reynosa. That means, says Reynosa, that in addition to having limited or nonexistent English, many of the students must cope with the pressures of grinding poverty (a median family income of $17,000; 18% on welfare) and the anomie common to refugees. And since Hispanics are America...
...nearly four years Richard Farley, 39, a computer software technician in California's Silicon Valley, had failed to win the affection of Laura Black, 26, a fellow worker at ESL, an electronics firm in Sunnyvale. But he got her involuntary attention by following and harassing her. In 1986 he reportedly was fired from the company after threatening to kill her. Three weeks ago, Black asked a court to order him to stay away from her, and a temporary injunction was granted. Said Black in her complaint: "I have been afraid of what this man might...
With good reason. Last week, police said, Farley, carrying a rifle, two shotguns and four handguns, blasted his way through a locked door at ESL. He fired furiously at employees, killing seven and injuring four others, before surrendering to a police SWAT team. Black was seriously wounded. The next day Family Court Commissioner Lois Kittle symbolically made the injunction . permanent, while explaining through tears, "Pieces of paper do not stop bullets...
...program, which is being held at Roxbury Community College (RCC), offers these workers free courses in reading, writing, mathematics, English as a Second Language (ESL), and preparation for the high school equivalency examination, state and Sears officials said...