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Newt Gingrich: “We should replace bilingual education with emergence -- with immersion in English, so people learn the common language…”

On the recordApril 1, 2007
We should replace bilingual education with emergence -- with immersion in English, so people learn the common language of the country, and so they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.
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Newt Gingrich
Republican · Georgia

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Newt Gingrich advocates for replacing bilingual education with English immersion to promote prosperity.

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