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...Non-English-speaking students need to learn English, but they also need to learn the rest of the high school curriculum so that they can rejoin their classmates in English-speaking classrooms without falling behind. To provide students with high-quality education, bilingual educators need drastically increased resources. Skilled teachers are needed so that classroom size can be reduced; administrative support is needed so that student progress can be monitored more closely; and more counselors should be provided to allow students to make a smooth transfer, both academically and socially, into mainstream classrooms. The ballot initiative would take away resources...
...placement afterward. Because none of the students spoke English, they were accompanied by an interpreter, the same person for each group. Even though English proficiency is a license requirement, all the Arab students received driver's licenses, trucking sources say. (It's not clear how they passed the written test, which is in English.) Charlie Tweedy, the owner of Careers Worldwide, a truck-driving school in Denver, told TIME that FBI agents have examined his files and interviewed his employees. But he denied that his company had taught non-English speakers...
Many people were turned away by Harvard University Police Department officers at the doors as over 350 people packed into an overflowing Askwith Lecture Hall to hear the debate about Unz’s proposals for a single year of English “immersion”for non-English speakers. The plan would end nearly all bilingual education...
...placement afterward. Because none of the students spoke English, they were accompanied by an interpreter, the same person for each group. Even though English proficiency is a license requirement, all the Arab students received driver's licenses, trucking sources say. (It's not clear how they passed the written test, which is in English.) Charlie Tweedy, the owner of Careers Worldwide, a truck-driving school in Denver, told Time that FBI agents have examined his files and interviewed his employees. But he denied that his company had taught non-English speakers...
...Iowans have reason to be leery because of unplanned immigration in the mid-'90s, when thousands of Hispanics came to Iowa communities like Marshalltown to work in meat-packing plants. Marshalltown (pop. 26,000) became 12% Hispanic overnight. The monocultural town was totally unprepared. Schools struggled to cope with non-English speakers. A methamphetamine industry sprang up, which police blamed on Mexican gangs. Most of the new arrivals, like Gilberto Ortega, 36, from El Salvador, toiled long hours at jobs nobody else wanted. Ortega, a meatcutter, supported his wife and two children on $9 an hour. He says...