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...rally, sponsored by the Chinese Progressive Alliance Worker's Center (CPAWC), called for support of two bills that would increase unemployment compensation and require the Department of Employment Training (DET) to hire translators for non-English speaking clients...
...second bill, which will also be heard thismorning, would require the state to providetranslators for non-English speaking peopleseeking unemployment benefits or filing appealsthrough the Department of Employment Training...
...scene might be repeated a hundred times a day in Harvard seminars or tutorials, but here it is performed with one important difference. On this night at a vocational placement center for non-English speaking immigrants, the students have become teachers and the adults students--and the struggle for learning in which they are engaged seeks a final goal of sometihing closer to achieving diginty than straight...
...implement this article by appropriate legislation," as the Florida referendum pledges. Will the state empower a school teacher to punish an eight-year student for speaking Spanish in the classroom? Will it deny Hispanic criminal defendants from hearing their rights because they cannot understand arresting officers? Will it dissuade non-English speakers from using public transportation or applying for jobs...
...implement this article by appropriate legislation," as the Florida referendum pledges. Will the state empower a school teacher to punish an eight-year student for speaking Spanish in the classroom? Will it deny Hispanic criminal defendants from hearing their rights because they cannot understand arresting officers? Will it dissuade non-English speakers from using public transportation or applying for jobs...