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How can being bilingual be an asset for white students and a deficit for immigrants?

The Hechinger Report

BOSTON — Katie Cardamone teaches second grade in the Mendon-Upton Regional School District, about 40 miles southwest of Boston. Barely 1 percent of Mendon’s population is Latino and about 2 percent of Upton’s is, but Cardamone teaches her entire class in Spanish. We talk about our existence as an act of social justice.”.