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Article: DPS plan applauded District aims to bridge gap for kids learning English.(News)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- November 19, 2005
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Byline: Nancy Mitchell, Rocky Mountain News
Luis Torres sat in a church meeting room Friday night and heard Denver Public Schools leaders say things he had almost given up on hearing from them.
Things like this from Chief Academic Officer Jaime Aquino: "My hope is every graduate from DPS will be bilingual, biliterate and bicultural."
Or, as Aquino also said, that multicultural education in Denver schools "has to go beyond festivals and food-tasting."
For Torres, a professor of Chicano studies at Metropolitan State College of Denver, former chairman of the DPS Hispanic Education Advisory Council and grandparent of a DPS student, those ...