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Demography & Population Studies

These California Latinos didn’t grow up speaking Spanish. Here’s why


“The vast majority of California’s bilingual programs were gutted. That whole generation had minimal, fig-leaf bilingual education,” said Otto Santa Ana, a professor emeritus of Chicano/a studies at UCLA.

“The vast majority of California’s bilingual programs were gutted. That whole generation had minimal, fig-leaf bilingual education,” said Otto Santa Ana, a professor emeritus of Chicano/a studies at UCLA.