Word: hispanicized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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As the campaign became more heated, the two candidates dueled last week for Texas' 26 crucial electoral votes. Polls show the race to be close, with Reagan holding a slight edge. Carter barely won Texas in 1976, even with 87% of the Mexican-American vote. Since then, the state...
Last fall Docouto called together members of Hispanic, Haitian, Portuguese, health and women's organizations to press for more interpreters. The Coalition for Interpreters Now has held discussions on the shortage and on September 8 presented its grievances to the City Council.
Behind the barbed wire and chain-link fences at Fort McCoy, in the bucolic farm land of western Wisconsin, young Hispanic men have stripped off their shirts because of the sweltering summer heat. But when asked what the 5,000 Cuban refugees at the sprawling Army base need most, T...
>Chicago now has about 500,000 Spanish-speaking citizens-Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and Cubans-totaling well over 10% of the population. One-third of the Hispanic students need some kind of bilingual education, and the cost of providing it has soared by more than 800% in the past eight years...
If the program worked just that way, there would be no problem. But Miguel's curriculum is a tiny part of a crazy quilt of local, state and national attempts to cope with the growing number of U.S. schoolchildren, some 3.5 million of them, for whom English is a...