Los Angles Dual-Language Program Profiled

In an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times (4/25), author and Loyola Marymount professor Rubén Martinez writes about his desire for his daughters to be fluent in both English and Spanish, noting that after moving to "Mount Washington, a neighborhood with a top-ranked elementary school at the top of the hill," he "heard that Aldama Elementary School in neighboring Highland Park had recently inaugurated a dual-language immersion program." Martinez describes the program, and the "time and political effort" required to establish it. "It is a grand social experiment. And of course it hasn't yet resolved the contradictions of gentrification or even breached the borders that come with new demographics."