Bilingual & Immigrant Education

Advocates on both sides of California's ballot initiative to curtail bilingual education in public schools went before the state school board this month, several months before the voters will decide the issue.

The 10-member board hosted a hearing Feb. 9 as a "fact finding" session to better understand how the proposal, if passed, would affect students, parents, and teachers. As expected, the board did not vote to take a stand on the "English for the Children" initiative that day.

"But that does not preclude that the board may well vote on it at some time in the future,"...