Bilingual bullies.(education) From: National Review | Date: February 23, 1998| Author: Miller, John J. | COPYRIGHT 1998 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

School districts across the country are not teaching English--because the Federal Government won't let them.

In December 1994, Sandra Lenker took a friendly phone call from the Department of Education in Washington, D.C. Three years later, the superintendent of the Atwater Elementary School District in California's Central Valley finds herself stuck in a bruising fight with the department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) over her district's bilingual program. "The process ...

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