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Yearly Archives: 2000
Washington Post: “Little Ivan Changed My Mind”
Continuing the enormous and growing national momentum behind “English for the Children,” the Labor Day weekend edition of the Sunday Washington Post carried a long and powerful front-page Commentary piece by Oceanside Superintendent Ken Noonan, attached below. Noonan explains that … Continue reading
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The Prop. 227 Deluge Continues
Triggered by the New York Times story of two weeks ago, a flood of at least some five dozen editorials and columns on the remarkable success of Prop. 227 has now cascaded onto the pages of the national newspapers, with … Continue reading
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The Gift of English
The Gift of English, by Ron Unz It’s past time for New York to scrap bilingual ed City Journal, Autumn 2000 In June 1998, Californians overwhelmingly approved Proposition 227, the controversial ballot initiative that replaced the state’s bilingual-ed system with English-immersion classes. … Continue reading
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“How the Republicans Lost California”
I’m attaching below an op-ed of mine which appeared a few days ago in the Wall Street Journal, presenting my views on how the Republicans lost California, and therefore their so-called “lock” on the White House.
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How the Republicans Lost California – WSJ
How the Republicans Lost California by Ron Unz The Golden State isn’t too liberal for the GOP. Its leaders simply scared away immigrant voters Wall Street Journal, Monday, August 28, 2000 Just 10 years ago, California was a GOP bastion, regarded as … Continue reading
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Texas vs. America on Bilingual Education
Five days ago, the Great Gray Lady of New York knocked a huge front-page hole in the Berlin Wall of timorous silence long surrounding the education of millions of immigrant schoolchildren in America. And long-suppressed thoughts and words have come … Continue reading
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WSJ: “Please Steal This Issue!”
This past Sunday, the Gray Lady of New York proclaimed the apparent success of California’s Prop. 227 on Page One, Above the Fold, and, as might be expected, the Heavens have certainly shaken. Within just forty-eight hours, at least eight … Continue reading
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The Aftermath of the New York Times on Prop. 227
With the New York Times having now placed its front-page stamp of national approval on the significance of California’s post-Prop. 227 test scores, other publications are beginning to follow this same path. Interestingly enough, first out of the gate was … Continue reading
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Front-Page New York Times on Prop. 227 Test Results
As America’s national newspaper of record, the New York Times carries the important responsibility of evaluating the nature and significance of regional events, and providing that information to policy- makers throughout the country. I am therefore very pleased that today’s … Continue reading
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Huge Rise in Statewide California Immigrant Test Scores
Although obviously overshadowed by the massive news coverage surrounding the Democratic presidential convention in Los Angeles, the statewide release of the second year’s worth of post-Prop. 227 immigrant test scores contained extremely encouraging news. Overall, the test scores of 1.4 … Continue reading
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“California Doesn’t Matter”?
The Weekly Standard, America’s leading conservative newsweekly, recently carried a provocative cover story by Executive Editor Fred Barnes, entitled “California Doesn’t Matter.” The article suggests that California’s political importance has greatly diminished in recent years, and the state no longer … Continue reading
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Joe Lieberman and the Melting Pot
The heavy media coverage surrounding Sen. Joe Lieberman’s Vice Presidential selection has mostly focused on his status as America’s first Jewish major party running mate and his Orthodox faith. But his position on assimilationist issues also deserves significant notice. The … Continue reading
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Arizona Vote Set for November
Although Republican Party and its new standard-bearers appear more eager to pursue multiculturalism than assimilationism, the people of Arizona will now have a chance to directly indicate their own views. Prop. 203, an Arizona measure to dismantle that state’s system … Continue reading
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On Hispanics and the GOP
“On Hispanics and the GOP” by Ron K. Unz Chronicles (Letters), August 2000 Samuel Francis (Principalities & Powers, April 2000) is correct in much of his analysis of the weaknesses of Gov. George W. Bush’s political strategy for attracting Hispanic … Continue reading
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Bilingual Education Misrepresentation
Bilingual Education Misrepresentation by Ron Unz Los Angeles Times (Orange County, Letters), Sunday, July 30, 2000 Agustin Gurza accuses me (“Bilingual Ed: The Truth Behind Test Gains,” July 22) of using “statistical sleight of hand” in suggesting that the early Stanford 9 … Continue reading
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Thirty Years of Failure
Thirty Years of Failure by Ron Unz San Francisco Chronicle (Letters), Sunday, July 30, 2000 Your Sunday, Sept. 10 editorial, “A Rush to Judgment on Bilingual Education,” claims that two years isn’t long enough to judge the success of Proposition 227’s dismantling … Continue reading
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Gurza vs. Unz
Last week Agustin Gurza, the designated “Latino affairs” columnist of the Los Angeles Times, devoted his weekly column to a rather disparaging attempt to rebut my own recent Note on the $25,000 performance bonuses likely to be awarded to the … Continue reading
“Half-Unz”
As most of you are aware, Prop. 25, my sweeping campaign finance reform measure on California’s March ballot was defeated by a well-funded campaign led by Gov. Gray Davis and California’s Democratic Party. Now, ironically enough, California’s Democratic leaders have placed their own … Continue reading
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$25,000 bonuses for English immersion teachers?
California’s new statewide SAT-9 test scores should provide new evidence regarding the impact of Prop. 227, the 1998 initiative which dismantled bilingual education. Although the subtotal test scores of immigrant (“LEP”) students will not be made public until mid-August, the … Continue reading
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No Colorado English Initiative
As some of you may have been aware, there was an ongoing attempt to place a Prop. 227-clone initiative on the November ballot in Colorado. Our organization, English for the Children, was NOT involved in this effort, which was organized … Continue reading
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The Asian-American Double Standard
The current issue of Commentary contains an excellent article by Tamar Jacoby on Asian Americans. The article prompted me to submit the following letter, which I have been told will be published in a forthcoming issue. The Asian-American Double Standard by … Continue reading
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NY Times: “Race in California”
Today’s 4th of July edition of the New York Times contains an excellent front page story on the changing ethnic landscape of California, explaining that the state will become “officially” majority non-white at some point over the next twelve months, … Continue reading
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“165,000 signatures for English in Arizona”
Our “English for the Children of Arizona” campaign just filed 165,000 signatures to qualify its measure for the November ballot, far more than the 101,000 needed. The Phoenix press conference at which we announced the end of the signature drive … Continue reading
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High Noon for Vouchers – NRO
High Noon for Vouchers by Ron Unz In November, a turning point for U.S. education National Review (Online), Tuesday, June 20, 2000 Originally proposed by Economics Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman in 1955, educational vouchers and related types of school choice have increasingly … Continue reading
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“High Noon for Vouchers in America”
Although school vouchers have so far received very little recent attention, I believe they may soon become one of the central political issues of the November election in California, and perhaps nationally as well.