California elections & bilingual ed

[Enrique Diaz-Alvarez]

Michael Perelman wrote:
> 
> Look, nobody reads the propositions.  Framing is everything.  This one was
> framed, do you want the children to be able to learn English.  The hispanics,
> like most groups, wanted their children to learn English.
> 

Actually, hispanics probably did read it, since they rejected it by 2 to
1. Whites, on the other hand, may well have been more cavalier about it,
since they are largely unaffected by it.

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