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No expensive language lessons or language immersion school required. "Children are like sponges absorbing everything they're seeing and hearing," says Farwa Husain, a bilingual speech-language ...

The decision to become an entirely bilingual school in 1995 was an “obvious choice,” said Waaler, adding that it also made ...

And that’s sort of what we see.” Texas requires school districts to offer bilingual education if at least 20 children in the same grade speak the same language other than English at home ...

Texas enrolls a significantly higher percentage of English learners in bilingual programs than California does.