Goveminent to adequately communicate with certain Americans. this bill ironically does nothing to provide opportunities to those with limited English proficiency in order to help them learn our language. In fact. the fiscal year 1997 Labor. Health and Human Services. Education appropriations bill recently passed by the House cuts bilingual and Immigrant education programs by 11 percent. This funding reduction. if taken together with this bill. would pull the rug out from under the majority of immigrants who are diligently attempting to learn English and further aggravate and polarize existing language barriers in this country. The main public school system in my district. St.
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