Every Presidential hopeful knows the importance of developing meaningful immigration reform. But an initiative scheduled to appear on the 2016 California ballot may alter any of those strategies for the worse.
The California Multilingual Education Act (SB 1174) effectively repeals Prop 227 (which required English immersion for all public school students) and would require districts to teach students in their primary languages spoken at home.
In a recent editorial, Fox News columnist Liz Peek notes that there are 60 different languages spoken regularly in California – and the passage of the Multilingual Education Act could prove to be a logistical nightmare.
