Dozens of school districts, including Los Angeles Unified and Santa Ana Unified, set up recruiting booths. But I'm not really concerned about that. I'm concerned about the children. Some teachers said they had already taken the first steps toward political action. Three teachers and a principal from the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District in Orange County said they had talked with neighbors, spoken with state lawmakers, called radio shows and written letters to the editors of newspapers, all of which had gone unpublished.
People often forget the 'bi' in bilingual, meaning two languages.
Strategists for the anti-Unz campaign, aware of the difficulty of explaining bilingual education to skeptics in the electorate, have decided that bilingual educators won't make the best spokesmen for the cause. The bilingual association is not among the groups signing the ballot argument against the initiative. And word went out at the conference that the campaign will not seek to defend bilingual education. That approach may make good politics. But it disappointed some people here who want the bilingual association to do more in public.