How to Use bilingual education in a Sentence

bilingual education

noun
  • Their report, released in the fall of 1970, spurred reform and the nation’s first bilingual education law.
    BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2021
  • There are stories like the one about Pete Chacon being elected to the state Assembly and leading the movement for bilingual education.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2021
  • In Denver public schools, 20 bilingual education teachers hold H-1Bs and about three hold J-1s.
    New York Times, 2 May 2018
  • On top of this, the bilingual education program is underfunded and has failed to reach many areas of rural Paraguay, where Guaraní speakers are still schooled in Spanish, leading many to drop out.
    Myles McCormick, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2018
  • The issues cut to the heart of race relations, from affirmative action to bilingual education.
    Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2022
  • In 1998, California voters went so far as to ban most bilingual education in public schools.
    Kevin Carey, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Mink was the first woman of color to serve in Congress who notably fought for gender and racial equality, affordable childcare and bilingual education.
    Valerie Nome, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Areli Morales, 21, is in her senior year at Brooklyn College, training to become a bilingual education teacher.
    Liz Robbins, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
  • But by far the most controversial change will be to make ASL-English bilingual education the districtwide standard for early intervention with deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
    Sonja Sharpstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022
  • Six years later Sánchez won a lawsuit mandating bilingual education in Hartford schools.
    Susan Dunne, courant.com, 14 Nov. 2021
  • So is the effort to ensure bilingual education, or a system that includes students with disabilities.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2022
  • For decades, Inner Mongolia's model of bilingual education has allowed Mongolian to be used as the language of instruction and Mandarin taught as a subject.
    Nectar Gan, CNN, 5 Sep. 2020
  • The first three stories in the series published today focus on the topics of bilingual education, college education, and Latinos in politics.
    Staff, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2020
  • For instance, at an institution that was largely made up of Mexican-American youth, five of the seven school board members were white, 75% of the teachers were white, and there wasn’t bilingual education available for Spanish-speakers.
    Natalie Arroyo Camacho, refinery29.com, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Now 41 schools offer dual language programs or are on the path to having one, Jackson said, noting this year CPS allocated $12 million for supports for bilingual education.
    Hannah Leone, chicagotribune.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • For decades, Massachusetts led the nation in bilingual education.
    BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2021
  • He’s expressed a desire to raise test scores, make classrooms more disciplined, and keep English language learners from accessing bilingual education.
    Yana Kunichoff, The Arizona Republic, 20 Nov. 2022
  • The type of Americanization of newcomers that once was encouraged is now rejected by activists who push for bilingual education, Spanish-language ballots and the like.
    Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2018
  • While the severity of teacher shortages varies among school districts, Ayala said many schools are short special education and bilingual education teachers.
    Karen Ann Cullotta, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022
  • California reversed its bilingual education ban in 2016, and Massachusetts did the same the following year.
    Kevin Carey, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2021
  • States including New York, Texas and Illinois require bilingual education.
    Kevin Carey, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Depending on their scores, students may be placed in a transitional bilingual education program, according to CPS.
    Hannah Leone, chicagotribune.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Over the years, the firm has taken on cases challenging affirmative action, bilingual education, inclusionary zoning, and the Voting Rights Act.
    Allie Gross, Detroit Free Press, 10 July 2019
  • Quentin worked with Republicans to oppose bilingual education and bilingual voting and to undermine HIV education in our schools.
    Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 31 July 2019
  • In our community, the bilingual education that our Weetumuw School students receive is meaningful on a much larger scale.
    Lili Kennington, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Inspired by his dad's activism on issues like bilingual education and his later work at the local community college, Medrano wanted to pursue a job in education.
    Paulina Pineda, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2021
  • Horne is a committed advocate for English immersion and a fierce opponent of bilingual education programs.
    Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 15 May 2023
  • Working with Sanders and Cloutman, Thomas helped the district pivot to policies that turned the tide of public opinion, Wright said: improved facilities, volunteer transfers, more magnet programs, learning centers and bilingual education.
    Corbett Smith, Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Federico said county officials have been running bilingual education and advertising campaigns to try to decrease the spread of the coronavirus among the Latino community.
    Kristi Sturgill, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2020
  • In Nunavut, the northernmost Canadian territory, where most Inuit live, not all schools offer classes in Inuktut even though the territory has mandated bilingual education by 2020.
    The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019

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