Politics should not determine how we teach English to Spanish-speaking children.

“EFFORTS to identify the proper method for teaching English to Spanish-speaking students invite controversy, but they shouldn’t. Reasonable people share the goal of increasing the number of Texas schoolchildren fluent in English, the dominant language of the United States.

Hispanic community leaders and parents of Spanish-speaking children become distrustful when politicians question the success of expensive bilingual education programs and demand accountability. Taxpayers want more value from their education dollars and get frustrated when statistics show dual language programs have limited success at imbuing English proficiency and increasing the educational attainment of Hispanic students….”

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