Language Issues + Texas Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)

November 13, 2009

State elections official fired after poking fun at Spanish-speaking voters – Texas

October 26, 2009

In Dallas, Drivers Ticketed for Inability to Habla Ingles – over the past three years, wrongly ticketed at least 39 drivers for not speaking English

October 13, 2009

Hotel owner makes Hispanic employees ’shorten’ Spanish names – Texas

August 17, 2009

Texan Educators Want Your Children to Learn all about ‘Brown’ People

March 18, 2009

Casi el 20 por ciento de todos los estudiantes inscritos en escuelas de El Paso se encuentra en proceso de aprender inglés, de acuerdo a los informes del Departamento de Educación de EU.

September 23, 2008

Nearly 5% of the 727,070 El Pasoans last year said buenas noches when they went to sleep and buenos días when they woke up, according to new information released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Fully one in five Texans now speaks Spanish in the course of their daily lives, a larger percentage than at any time since Texas was a part of Mexico, according to new Census Bureau figures

September 9, 2008

School district offers Spanish immersion up to 7th grade – Bedford Heights Elementary – Dallas area

July 29, 2008

Texas will probably appeal a court ruling mandating a new language program for an estimated 140,000 junior high and high school students who don’t have command of the English language, state officials said Monday.

July 27, 2008

JUDGE ORDERS TEXAS TO REVAMP ITS BILINGUAL PROGRAMS – with additional documentation

July 26, 2008

A federal judge on Friday gave the state of Texas until the end of January to come up with a plan to improve education programs for secondary school students with limited proficiency in English, criticizing the state education agency for “failing to ensure equal education opportunities in all schools.”

July 17, 2008

Foundation Unveils Bilingual Scholarship Program for Social Work – Baylor University

July 15, 2008

Plano-based Bennigan’s offers menu in Spanish – Texas

July 13, 2008

Thousands Of Students In Texas Classified “Limited English Learners”

June 23, 2008

Careful word play targets Hispanics – Marketers increasingly using commingling of languages for ad messages – Texas

June 2, 2008

Bilingual bee: Spelling is so fun they do it twice – asked to spell words in Spanish, including the accent marks. They then had to translate the word and spell it in English. – Houston

May 12, 2008

Spanish language plays role in police officer training – Waco, Texas

April 29, 2008

FSN Houston Teams with Astros to Produce Spanish-Language Telecasts

February 28, 2008

Sherman Police learning Spanish – Texas

February 6, 2008

Mandatory Spanish classes anger Grapevine family – Texas

December 11, 2007

Suits fuel debate over English-only rules at work

December 5, 2007

DFW International putting out new Guia Para Educacion de Nuestros Hijos

November 28, 2007

What’s the Spanish for ‘That was the wrong ad’? – Fort Worth

October 3, 2007

Program teaches in Spanish the basics of running a business – Spanish-language program teaches the basics of running a business in words immigrants can better understand – Houston

September 15, 2007

Forget Spanglish ”” español, please – Rio Grande Valley, Texas

August 21, 2007

Oak Point sticks with English-only resolution – Texas (Dallas area)

August 10, 2007

No habla español? Austin Community College hopes to fix that for workers – Texas