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California finally ended a ban on bilingual education. Now it can’t find enough teachers for these classes

The Hechinger Report

Viviana Valerio, a kindergarten teacher, said that history made bilingual education an intimidating proposition. By 2030, it wants half of California students on a path to becoming bilingual. They can learn social studies in Spanish; its still history and geography. These subject matters dont exist only in English.

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Is California saving higher education?

The Hechinger Report

Because we had that history, because we knew what a well-functioning higher education system could do, we aspire to that again.”. We have a long history of not catering to these populations,” Mora said. And that dream has been fading,” said David Chiu, a member of the State Assembly from San Francisco who is active in education issues.

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