Scholars who have studied the Aspira consent decree, such as Isaura Santiago and Sandra del Valle, have analyzed the support for bilingual/bicultural education as part of a broader effort to gain an equal educational opportunity and address the high drop-out rate among minority group children. They also regard it as part of the struggle to gain greater community control of the schools.Antonia Pantoja, who founded Aspira in New York City in 1961, believed that the Puerto Rican communities of New York City, like other Latin American communities, understood that Spanish-English bilingualism and biliteracy (the ability to read and write in two languages) were indispensable tools for personal growth, community development, and sociocultural advancement. Thus, there was ample reason for the criticism of the consent decree that surfaced. Many community leaders were not satisfied with the transitional nature of the programs to be mandated by the decree.Aspira’s mission was that of helping to develop new leaders in New York among the city’s high school Puerto Rican youth.
As other Latino immigrants arrived in large numbers, they too were incorporated into the programs operated by Aspira in pursuit of this same goal. Biliteracy was seen as tied to academic achievement and also to ethnic awareness, selfaffirmation, and an ethic of social responsibility and problem solving.While Aspira was intended to represent non-English-speaking Puerto Rican and other Latino students, students from other ethnic and linguistic minority groups also benefited from the provisions of the consent decree, because the Lau compliance plan mirrored the consent decree’s key elements. The fact that Spanish-speaking ELLs were separated from other ELLs as a plaintiff class in the Aspira lawsuit and that the case was pursued as a Puerto Rican/Latino community effort has had unexpected consequences over the years.The absence of non-Latino ELL plaintiffs has led many to see the issue of bilingual education in New York City primarily as a concern of the Puerto Rican community and other emerging Latino groups. In later years, the linguistic diversity of other ELL populations and their presumed differences regarding the desirability of bilingual instruction would be used by school officials to argue for more choice in instructional models, especially for English immersion options.
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Psychic Ability
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