Resources on the Colorado Bilingual Education Referendum
(pending in 2002)
"Joseph C'De Baca, who teaches social studies at Denver's Grant Middle School,
said some sixth-graders in bilingual programs still had not mastered English by
the time they reached high school. Now they're bi-illiterate," he said.
"Bilingual ed might wind up on ballot,"
Rocky Mountain News (June 20, 2001).
Clinton Administration files a complaint
against Dever's bilingual education program (July 31, 1997).
"Denver Hispanics Assail Bilingual Ed. Plan,"
Education Week (April 30 1997).
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