nations, the U.S. attracts immigrants from several

countries. One of the most frequent asked questions are,

how do we accommodate immigrants and whether to try to fully

blend them into the U.S. culture ? There is a huge

controversy over the Bilingual Education issue. After many

years of bilingual education in the United States, one thing

is certain that it doesn't work and it's failing America's

immigrants but many might disagree with this statement and

may think that Bilingual Education is a successful program.

Bilingual education is a dual-language program designed

to provide equal education opportunities to students of

limited English proficiency (Gallegos 99). There has been

lots of attention put towards Bilingual Education because of

the large number of non-English speaking immigrants in

America. The first Bilingual Education act was passed in

1968, which allowed students to learn material in school

partly in their own language and the rest in English. By

1973, the federal budget for bilingual education had grown

to 45 million dollars and supported programs in twenty-six

different languages(Lang 61). Language minority in the

1 ). They would accomplish this goal by teaching the

regular classes conducted in English after three years

than, LEP students in regular English-speaking classes

something to the American culture by bringing the linguistic

students in immersion classes were able to enter into

are too expensive. It is important to have an understanding

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