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Though many educators agree with Bennett's latest broadside, it stirred angry reactions. Said Ralph Robinett, administrator of bilingual education in Dade County, Fla.: "It is the old story of the power structure being out of tune with the ethnic makeup of the community." Nathan Quinones, a Hispanic and chancellor of New York City's public schools, where 86,000 students are in bilingual programs, was quietly unhappy. Bennett's emphasis on English, he said, "implies that if you do anything other than what is professed by Bennett . . . you may not be American...
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