Word: reynosa
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...district they form 59% of the total, up from just a fifth in 1978. Of the school's 3,000 pupils, nearly half are enrolled in bilingual or English-as-a-second-language classes. "This is very much a port-of-entry school," says Bilingual-ESL Program coordinator Pat Reynosa. That means, says Reynosa, that in addition to having limited or nonexistent English, many of the students must cope with the pressures of grinding poverty (a median family income of $17,000; 18% on welfare) and the anomie common to refugees. And since Hispanics are America's fastest-growing ethnic...