The bilingual program presented the student a scholastic curriculum that simultaneously instructed students all the required classes while teaching them the English language. ... Prior to Proposition 227, California's programs for immigrant students included English as a Second Language, in which students were taught the English language for part of the day, and bilingual education, in which students took classes taught in their native tongues until their English improved. ... About eighty percent of all non-English speaking students in California are Mexican or of Hispanic descent. ......

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