Word: yupik
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...program affected 25,000 children. This year the federal program alone will handle an estimated 500,000. Begun as a local option available to poor children who are weak in English, bilingual ed is now a federally enforceable right for children speaking any one of 70 native tongues, from Yupik to Yapese, from Vietnamese to Russian. Collectively it costs Americans $700 million a year. It will soon cost more. With schools reopening next week, the Department of Education will launch public hearings in six cities (Chicago, Denver, New York, New Orleans, San Antonio and San Francisco) about Government proposals...
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