'Official English' Bills Could Kill Bilingual Education, NABE Says
Washington
With proposals to declare English the official language of government gaining support in Congress, the National Association for Bilingual Education last week released a report contending that such laws would effectively end bilingual-education programs.
About half a dozen so-called official-English proposals are pending, some of which expressly seek to repeal federally financed bilingual education. But the bills that have garnered the most support, HR 123 and its counterpart, S 356, do not. Aides to the bills' sponsors, Rep. Bill Emerson, R-Mo., and Sen. Richard C. Shelby, R-Ala., said that they do not intend to...
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