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  1. 08-13-2007, 11:22 AM #1
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    NY City Schools employ 28 linguists with $4.5 mil. budget

    Anyone need any more proof that we must legislate English as our national language???

    August 13, 2007
    School Translators Can Help Parents Lost in the System
    By JULIE BOSMAN
    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/13/nyreg ... ref=slogin

    In an earlier life, Xin Meng chased stories as a reporter for a Chinese-language newspaper in New York. Now he spends his days figuring out how to translate mysterious phrases like “empowerment schoolâ€
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  2. 08-13-2007, 12:01 PM #2
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    It has since expanded to an office with 40 employees and a $4.5 million budget, and is the largest of its kind in any school system in the United States, said Kleber Palma, the unit’s director. In one respect, the office even surpasses the translation division at United Nations headquarters, which translates most documents into only five official languages other than English: Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish.

    Good they can teach the illegals English for "Go Home".
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    Great scott!!! You talk about a waste of tax-payers money!!! Where are the English teachers for those who can't or won't learn the language!!
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