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Arizona Teachers, Parents Spar Over Bilingual Education

NPR | By Claudio Sanchez
Published December 2, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Latino students make up the largest minority group of America's school-age population -- and there's broad consensus that public schools aren't meeting their needs. In Arizona, educators and parents remain bitterly divided over bilingual education, which voters banned two year ago. NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports.

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Former elementary and middle school teacher Claudio Sanchez is the education correspondent for NPR. He focuses on the "three p's" of education reform: politics, policy and pedagogy. Sanchez's reports air regularly on NPR's award-winning newsmagazines Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. Sanchez joined NPR in 1989, after serving for a year as executive producer for the El Paso, Texas, based Latin American News Service, a daily national radio news service covering Latin America and the U.S.- Mexico border.
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