March 28, 2024

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| 5/27/2015

"It’s exclusionary. It’s elitist. It will have tons of economic ramifications. "

-- Rosa Castro Feinberg, the first Hispanic woman elected to the Miami-Dade school board in 1988

Census data rank Miami as one of the most bilingual cities in the U.S. On the nightly news, in the halls of government and in the aisles of the supermarket, Miami-Dade County speaks español.

But how well today’s schoolchildren read and write in Spanish — the real measure of fluency in an increasingly competitive economy — has become a matter of debate as the Miami-Dade County school system reconsiders how to teach children the native tongue of many of its residents.

Read more at the Miami Herald.

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