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Bilingual education fight plays out off stage
California’s crowded Nov. 8 ballot is leading the media to perform a kind of triage and focus on only a handful of the measures deemed most crucial. This has lead to a spotlight on proposals to make it easier for
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CalWatchdog Morning Read – October 12
Escalating pension debt may rest on CA Supreme Court ruling Is the state free of liability in Secure Choice retirement plan? Gloria Allred goes after Trump tapes New battle over bilingual education Crowdfunding effort to get Trump tapes Good morning.
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CalWatchdog Morning Read – August 8
New bill rekindles old human egg fight Lawmakers push for mandatory minimums in sex assault cases OC Democrats almost overtake former Republican stronghold Bilingual education back on ballot Good morning! Happy Monday. Our top story is about a new bill
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Top CA GOP senator backs bilingual ed
A notable Golden State Republican just made a U-turn on 16 years of education policy: Sens. Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar. He jointed majority Democrats in a vote of the California Senate Education Committee to recommended adding an initiative to the 2016 ballot that would restore bilingual education to the
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Push to restore CA bilingual education dubious in more than one way
When software tycoon Ron Unz’s Prop. 227 campaign to end bilingual education in California won landslide approval in 1998, one reason was that a lot of Latinos and white liberals shared Unz’s fundamental view that bilingual ed wasn’t working well
Read MoreThe Return of Bilingual Ed Plague?
APRIL 26, 2011 By JOHN SEILER Bilingual education may be creeping back in California. Yesterday’s Los Angeles Times included an op-ed by Ruben Martinez, a professor of literature and writing at Loyola Marymount University, about a new bilingual ed program at the
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