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Spanish-Speaking Puerto Rico Balks at Trump’s Proposal to Require English at Head Start Centers – WTOP News
The proposal would require instruction in English only, and local leaders warn it could strain staffing at roughly 25,000 Puerto Rico Head Start slots.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The only English words 4-year-old Alaisha Sandoval knows are courtesy of “Peppa Pig,” but that could soon change. The Trump administration is proposing that Head Start programs teach exclusively in English, rejecting the federal early-childhood program’s practice of incorporating the languages students speak at home. Alaisha’s father, Hansel Alejandro...