Archive | Multilingual America | Page 7

One-third of Cook County patients speak primarily Spanish.

Dual language classes start in kindergarten; "eventually the entire school will be bilingual."

So many Hispanic firemen don't speak English that non-Spanish speakers must go.

Fast-food restaurant lays down the law: Order your food in English.

Outlawing dissent.

Women object after Arizona tells them state program on child-care to be presented in Spanish.

National language amendment to immigration bill passes by 2-to-1 majority.

An example of the dangers of a non-English-speaking workforce.

House Republicans show a fighting spirit over amnesty.

Mexican nationalism of marchers was covered up by mainstream media.

First bilingual post office in the South opens.

California councilwoman wants English to be required on city's business signs.

Education translators puzzle out how to translate “outcome-based assessment" into Cambodian.

Texans take action against radio station that helps illegals evade capture.

Tavern owner won't remove sign saying, "For Service Speak English.”

44 percent of Hispanics don't have basic English skills.

School suspends student for speaking Spanish; parent sues.

Oregon puts out workers'-rights tapes in Indian languages: Mixteco, Triqui, and Zapoteco.

Bi-lingual textbooks may also be coming to all Florida public schools.

Translators of obscure Central American Indian dialects much in demand in courtrooms.

California Democrats use racially-charged ads in Spanish to attack Gov. Schwarzenegger.

Townspeople rally behind bar accused of discrimination for “For Service Speak English” sign.

Judge told Hispanic to learn English or lose custody of her daughter.

Koreans in Los Angeles find it's more useful to learn Spanish than English.

New York schools translate report cards into Haitian Creole, Urdu, and Arabic.

Color of discipline.

Readers bombard Florida paper with messages of support for Jan Hall.

Dallas will require that principals speak both English and Spanish at some schools.

Chinese maids threaten lawsuit after hotel employee tells them to speak English.

New library plan will banish English books to the backroom.

Hispanic colonel wants Army entrance exam given in Spanish..

Education professor believes studying rap is an "empowering, liberating pedagogy."

Community college offers high school degrees to students who don't speak English.

Hispanic team loses game after umpire bans Spanish.

Sixteen-year-old Guatemalan stabbed his adoptive mother for insisting that he speak English.

Spanish is here to stay, study finds.

Ohio legislator wants to stop the coddling of Spanish-speaking immigrants.

Blacks and AIDS.

Georgia firefighter key chain has phrases in Amharic, Somali, and Ibo.

19 percent of schoolchildren don't speak English at home.

Proposal would require principals to learn language of the majority of their students.

Soccer racism.

Parents of Hispanic students get gifted program used mainly by non-Hispanics eliminated.

Arizona governor will now consider bill.

Company behind scandalous ad says Los Angeles is a "Hispanic city."

Amendment would mandate all government business be conducted in English.

Influx of foreign graduate students means undergrads can't understand their instructors.

Walmart begins radio advertising in Mandarin, Cantonese, and Vietnamese in California.

Bill would require federal government business to be conducted in English only.

Maryland debates bill to make English the official language of state government.

Student finds school broadcasts of Pledge of Allegiance in foreign languages abhorrent.

German birth dearth.

ADL gives book given to parents newborns to teach racial "tolerance."

Mel Martinez speaks Spanish in his maiden Senate appearance.

Federal mandates requiring translation services in government offices impose enormous costs.

Hispanics are twice as likely as whites to be fraud victims.

MALDEF challenges Prop. 200 requirement that those registering for AZ vote prove citizenship.

Forty-three-year-old DC rock station goes Spanish.

State representative wants to make English the official language of Arizona.

Hispanic legislators in uproar over requirement that some school classes be in English.

Public employees in rural Virginia town to learn Spanish.

Multilingual ballots add a further layer of confusion to this election.

Radio giant to switch up to 25 US stations to “Hispanic formats.”

It's the dregs of Mexican society that come to America.

Spanish section of Bush website with Mexican flag is a symbol of a balkanized nation.

Doctors resent being required to provide translations for non-English-speaking patients.

Columnist compares California to Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

The best public schools in Texas have no bilingual students.

Texas school system strained by the burden of educating non-English-speaking students.

Maryland Comptroller says it would be a "tragedy" if America became bilingual.

Court-ordered English classes will cost $2,495 a year for most non-English-speaking students.

Texas county must hire hundreds of Spanish-speaking election clerks.

Lest they get ripped off.

Let there be whites!

Mayor Hip-Hop.