[NIFL-ESL:9406] Re: Accept English Only donation?

From: Joe Little (fyi@americanliteracy.com)
Date: Thu Sep 04 2003 - 17:17:04 EDT


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>  English-Only laws are generally the outcome of English-Only political 
>  organizing which seeks to ban bilingual programs for language minority 
>  children funded by any funding source.

Kevin & All,
Tho i'm only quoting the above, u make good points all over, especially regarding funding for native-speaker type language programs vs second-language english programs. Those are useful questions. They cause me to fall back into my politically-incorrect limited-govt stance that the fed shouldn't be involved in education (yikes, here we go).   But as to the  above text:  to the extent that ANY organization is fighting to prohibit--via law--the private funding of ANYTHING then, hells bells, i'll fight them myself. Show me(off-line if need be) a verifiable reference to that effect and u've got a convert. 

Cheerio,

Joe



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