Unz Initiatives

California

The Campaign Against Proposition 227: A Post Mortem, by James Crawford ( Bilingual Research Journal, Winter 1997)

The Ninth Street Myth: Who Speaks for Latino Parents? by James Crawford
Hispanic Link News Service, May 25, 1998

A Rush To Judgement on Bilingual Education
(SF Chronicle Editorial)

Proposition 227 and skyrocketing test scores: An urban legend from California, by Stephen Krashen, (The Journal of the Texas Association for Bilingual Education)

Court Upholds Prop. 227 Anti-Bilingual Education, (KTVU news, October, 2002)
A federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld a California voter initiative that dismantled bilingual education in CA.

A Birthright rearticulated: The Politics of Bilingual Education, by Nirej Sekhon
Author writes that California's Prop. 227 to end bilingual education equates American identity with white identity by claiming that English is the birthright privilege of white Americans.

What Can we Lear About the Impact of Prop. 227 from SAT-9 Scores?
The 2002 results provide no new information with respect to English Learners.

Email from Ron Unz to his supporters, announcing that Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals eliminated the last significant remaining legal challenge to Proposition 227.

Statement on the Unz/Tuchman Initiative (Proposition 227), by Kenji Hakuta, Professor of Education, Stanford University

Disaster At the Polls, by James Crawford
Discusses California Prop. 227

 

Arizona

Voter Mandates and Bilingual Education, by Richard Rothstein (New York Times, October 23, 2002) Arizona and Colorado UNZ initiatives

 

Massachusetts

(forthcoming)

 

Colorado

Information about the Anti-Unz ads sued in Colorado

Grant Funds Bilingual Overhaul, Denver Post, 11/14/02
Colorado calls for more teachers trained to help immigrant children master English

 

General

Q&A with Ron Unz on bilingual education, by Steve Sailer (United Press International, Sept. 25, 2002) Interview with Unz on his future plans across U.S. to abolish bilingual education.