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Californians passed propositions in the 1990s that sought to make life miserable for undocumented immigrants, ended government-sponsored affirmative action and banned bilingual education.

In the late 1970s she was seconded to a project that looked into the feasibility of bilingual education provision for the islands.

She also oversaw the development of bilingual education — a complicated effort that never bore fruit as hoped.

In Mexico, those who grow up attending public schools, as was his case, don’t have access to a bilingual education.

Jumping into the hot-button issue at the time, he guided a tense conversation with people offering differing views of Proposition 227, a statewide measure that restricted bilingual education in California.