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...foreign-born students in America?76% of them Hispanic???are taught at least some of their schoolwork in 70 dialects and languages. The federal Office of Bilingual Education alone sponsors 700 programs in 41 states and five territories, at a cost of $135 million; the spectrum of languages sweeps from Aleut in Alaska to Yiddish in New York. Meanwhile, at least ten states have passed legislation mandating bilingual instruction in those school districts with a minimum number of children?usually ten to 20?who speak a foreign language and are seriously deficient in English...
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