How to Use bilingual education in a Sentence

bilingual education

noun
  • While there, Rodriguez pushed for bilingual education to help new students succeed.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2026
  • What more should be done to ensure consistent bilingual education is provided and funded?
    — Chicago Tribune, 26 Oct. 2024
  • In Mexico, those who grow up attending public schools, as was his case, don’t have access to a bilingual education.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The issues cut to the heart of race relations, from affirmative action to bilingual education.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Their report, released in the fall of 1970, spurred reform and the nation’s first bilingual education law.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2021
  • So is the effort to ensure bilingual education, or a system that includes students with disabilities.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2022
  • Six years later Sánchez won a lawsuit mandating bilingual education in Hartford schools.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 14 Nov. 2021
  • For decades, Massachusetts led the nation in bilingual education.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2021
  • In 1998, California voters went so far as to ban most bilingual education in public schools.
    — Kevin Carey, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Horne, a Republican, is a staunch opponent of bilingual education.
    — Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Mink was the first woman of color to serve in Congress who notably fought for gender and racial equality, affordable childcare and bilingual education.
    — Valerie Nome, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Every year’s delay means a new class of kindergartners misses out on bilingual education, starting off their elementary school careers on a monolingual track.
    — Tara García Mathewson, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
  • Northside schools have fewer specialty programs, like those in bilingual education or dual college enrollment, and many families bus their kids to schools farther south.
    — Cleo Krejci, Journal Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The ban was repealed in 2016, but bilingual education in the state is still suffering, even as dual-language programs pick up steam elsewhere in the country.
    — Anna North, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • The right for students to participate in a bilingual education program provided by the local or regional board of education.
    — Jessika Harkay, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2024
  • While the severity of teacher shortages varies among school districts, Ayala said many schools are short special education and bilingual education teachers.
    — Karen Ann Cullotta, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Risking legacy The primary goal of bilingual education is teaching English.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
  • There are stories like the one about Pete Chacon being elected to the state Assembly and leading the movement for bilingual education.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2021
  • In bilingual education, English is used increasingly through the years (in most models) so that proficiency and literacy in both languages are achieved.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
  • States including New York, Texas and Illinois require bilingual education.
    — Kevin Carey, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2021
  • The first three stories in the series published today focus on the topics of bilingual education, college education, and Latinos in politics.
    — Staff, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2020
  • In our community, the bilingual education that our Weetumuw School students receive is meaningful on a much larger scale.
    — Lili Kennington, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Areli Morales, 21, is in her senior year at Brooklyn College, training to become a bilingual education teacher.
    — Liz Robbins, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
  • So in October, even as federal funding cuts were in the mix, bilingual education was deemed important enough, and necessary enough, to warrant 16 new programs.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Specialty programs for arts and bilingual education, or Advanced Placement and college-level classes are more likely available at schools in the south of the city than the north, the firm's data shows.
    — Cleo Krejci, Journal Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2024
  • On top of this, the bilingual education program is underfunded and has failed to reach many areas of rural Paraguay, where Guaraní speakers are still schooled in Spanish, leading many to drop out.
    — Myles McCormick, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2018
  • Inspired by his dad's activism on issues like bilingual education and his later work at the local community college, Medrano wanted to pursue a job in education.
    — Paulina Pineda, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2021
  • In Denver public schools, 20 bilingual education teachers hold H-1Bs and about three hold J-1s.
    — New York Times, 2 May 2018
  • Depending on their scores, students may be placed in a transitional bilingual education program, according to CPS.
    — Hannah Leone, chicagotribune.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • The federal department oversees key programs such as Title I, which helps fund education of low-income students and special and bilingual education.
    — Lily Kepner, Austin American-Statesman, 18 Nov. 2024

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