US: Presidential candidates divided on bilingual education

[Francis Hult]

Scripps News

 

Presidential candidates divided on bilingual education

 

What is your candidate's position, if any, on bilingual education? 

That's the question posed by Hispanic Link News Service to the 17 politicians competing in the presidential primaries that begin Jan. 5. 

 

So far the issue hasn't become as visible or volatile as in the past, when major drives to make English this nation's "official" language and to eliminate bilingual education in a number of states were political hot buttons. But based on attacks on immigrant rights, "amnesty" and in-state college tuition, it could emerge again as one in 2008. 

 

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http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/28720

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