
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
#166: Back in the late 1800s, California leaders got together to rewrite the state's constitution. It was proposed that all government documents should only be written in English and that official business only be spoken in English. That proposal was soon adopted, effectively banning Spanish for official use, despite promises made after the end of Mexican-American war to create space for the language. It's a decision that continued to affect California classrooms decades later. But one higher ed system in the state is taking steps to reverse it.
Host Brian De Los Santos talks to LAist's Adolfo Guzman-Lopez who recently wrote about this is in a two-part series.
Guest: Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, Higher Education Correspondent for LAist
You can find his story on LAist -- part 1 is here: https://laist.com/news/education/california-constitutional-convention-english-only-spanish-laccd
And here's part 2: https://laist.com/news/education/laccd-community-colleges-immigrant-experience-in-language-classes-spanish
4.7
8787 ratings
#166: Back in the late 1800s, California leaders got together to rewrite the state's constitution. It was proposed that all government documents should only be written in English and that official business only be spoken in English. That proposal was soon adopted, effectively banning Spanish for official use, despite promises made after the end of Mexican-American war to create space for the language. It's a decision that continued to affect California classrooms decades later. But one higher ed system in the state is taking steps to reverse it.
Host Brian De Los Santos talks to LAist's Adolfo Guzman-Lopez who recently wrote about this is in a two-part series.
Guest: Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, Higher Education Correspondent for LAist
You can find his story on LAist -- part 1 is here: https://laist.com/news/education/california-constitutional-convention-english-only-spanish-laccd
And here's part 2: https://laist.com/news/education/laccd-community-colleges-immigrant-experience-in-language-classes-spanish
38,473 Listeners
6,696 Listeners
9,185 Listeners
397 Listeners
314 Listeners
3,943 Listeners
1,109 Listeners
14,579 Listeners
10,228 Listeners
428 Listeners
2 Listeners
16,237 Listeners
423 Listeners
1,227 Listeners
90 Listeners
1,305 Listeners
876 Listeners
395 Listeners
541 Listeners
9 Listeners
529 Listeners
121 Listeners
80 Listeners
189 Listeners
11 Listeners
96 Listeners
19 Listeners