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Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Study urges $4 billion a year to teach immigrants


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Spending on English instruction must be quadrupled to more than $4 billion a year for the next six years to make legal and illegal adult immigrants proficient in skills crucial to their assimilation and the economic future of a country whose population is increasingly foreign-born, a new national report says.
In the first nationwide study of its kind, the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute estimates that an additional $200 million a year is needed to improve legal immigrants? English skills enough for them to pass a citizenship test and ?fully participate in the country?s civic life.? An additional $2.9 billion a year is required for illegal immigrants to meet those standards, the report says.
Federal and state governments spend about $1 billion a year on English as a Second Language instruction for adults, most of which comes from the states.

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