The "English for the Children" ballot initiative that Californians will vote on in June is looking like a juggernaut. The latest poll numbers show overwhelming support for the initiative, which promises to end the disastrous two-decade experiment in bilingual education in the state's public schools. A statewide Field poll shows support among likely voters at 70 percent. Latino voters, who certain brain-dead California Republican leaders once thought would be annoyed by the initiative, are supporting it 61 percent to 34 percent. Turns out just about everyone wants the children of California to learn English. Only the education establishment, which supped for years on bilingualism grants while children failed to learn English, is reluctant to get on board.
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The "English for the Children" ballot initiative that Californians will vote on in June is looking like a juggernaut. The latest poll numbers show overwhelming support for the initiative, which promises to end the disastrous two-decade experiment in bilingual education in the state's public…
The Scrapbook · April 20, 1998
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