Word: unzã
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Should the matter appear for their consideration, the citizens of the Commonwealth should reject the proposal. Ending bilingual education would leave thousands of children struggling to keep up. While we understand that the current bilingual education program must be reformed, Unz??s proposal would through the proverbial baby out with the bathwater—bilingual education needs help not because it is too large a program, but rather because it is too limited for the population it seeks to serve...
Massachusetts schools are known for their large bilingual programs. Some public school systems teach in 18 different languages, from Somali to Romanian, in an effort to secure for every person the right to a free public education. Unz??s proposal would undermine this education at a time when bilingual students are already facing dismally high failure rates on the state’s high-stakes MCAS exam. Voters should not allow the rug to be slipped out from under the feet of those who are just learning to stand...
Snow, while criticizing the former California bilingual education system, praised the current one in Massachusetts for its 20 percent yearly reclassfication rate. She attacked Unz??sclaims, saying that “he represented this issue in a way that misrepresented the facts” and jibing that California’s “reclassification rate has soared to 7 percent” since...
Members of the Communida Latina and the GSE’s Student Government Association passed out over 50 yellow armbands with the words “NO UNZ?? scrawled in black ink across them, and the corridors outside the hall were filled with handmade “language is a right” signs...
While Snow’s comments were met with rapturous applause, Unz??s were at first met with complete silence and then hissing, booing and numerous shouts of “that’s a lie” and “it’s not true...