Media Coverage

Martha Hernandez, who began her career as a bilingual educator in California in 1976, remembers a time when knowing a language other than English was not considered an asset. It […]

Imagine a classroom with confident and curious learners speaking, reading and writing in two languages. Where children are learning complex science or social science concepts taught in one language, with […]

Zyanya Cazares, a sixth grade teacher who is starting a new assignment this fall teaching in a bilingual education program in Los Angeles, grew up speaking Spanish. But she was […]

Los años noventa en California fueron marcados por un sentimiento antiinmigrante. En ese entonces, Pete Wilson—prominente partidario de deportaciones—era gobernador. Con su respaldo, los votantes aprobaron la Propuesta 187 en 1994, la […]

Let’s take a trip back to September 1995, when Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole was talking about education on the campaign trail. “If we want to ensure that all of our children had the same opportunities […]