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Article: TWO STATES HAVE LIMITS ON BILINGUAL-EDUCATION VOTERS HAVE APPROVED MEASURES IN CALIFORNIA AND ARIZONA; 3 STATES CONSIDERING SUCH ACTION.(Local)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- June 20, 2001
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Byline: Holly Yettick News Staff Writer
Laws limiting bilingual education are slowly immigrating to school districts and states across the country.
But they are still foreign to most voters.
``There aren't that many states that have the (ballot) initiative process and have bilingual programs,'' said Ron Unz, a California software millionaire who has led successful anti-bilingual education campaigns in two other states. ``And most politicians tend to be very, very cautious of getting involved in something like this. They view it as controversial.''
Unz and other opponents of bilingual education filed proposals Tuesday to put such an ...