Word: galvanization
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...that Republicans continue to accuse illegal immigrants, mostly starving Mexicans, Guatemalans and Salvadorenians, of "terrorism"? -Oscar Galvan Lopez, Avondale, Ariz.I don't know that I've ever heard that kind of accusation. I have certainly never said that illegal immigrants from Mexico are in away way suspects of terrorist activities. But security at the border is a national security issue. It has nothing to do with trying to stop a particular ethnic group. It has everything to do with trying to control the flow of people into your country...
Where does that leave charters' biggest boosters, poor and inner-city parents who can't always take time off from work to go school shopping? Two years ago, Josefina Galvan, a Mexican immigrant who works the graveyard shift as a nurse's aide, enrolled her four kids in Paramount Academy on word of mouth alone. They lasted one year and learned so little that all four repeated their grades at their new school--another charter that came highly recommended but is no award winner. "Even if the charter schools are terrible, I wouldn't put my kids back in public...