1. My grandson is in an immersion kindergarten Italian program in Glendale.
The school also has a German immersion program. This year they have 3 immersion language programs: German, Italian and Spanish. It's doing very well...
People are beginning to sign up for these immersion programs because they have learned about the benefits to brain development in children who learn multiple languages as a child.
This will turn out to be a very good thing for schools who take this up. Americans have a visceral reaction to kids learning anything except English but they shouldn't. Learning other languages IMPROVES their minds. It doesn't hurt them at all...
I wonder if CA would have these programs at all had it not been for the Prop. that decreed English only in the schools...
10. If I understand correctly, CA passed an official language law in the 80s
(as a constitutional amendment, perhaps?) but it has been interpreted by government at I'd guess every level as advisory only. Basically, it says something like "the Legislature will do nothing the undermine the status of English as CA's official language."
I speak and read English so I'm not sure what the procedure is, but I would guess that they could request a ballot in one of the languages that all the other election materials are available in...but I'd just be guessing.
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