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Aggies wanted for HOSTS program
□ Bryan schools need volunteers
to tutor students in reading.
By Javier Martinez
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Now Through September 8, 1995
The Bryan School District is looking for
100-140 volunteers for its Help One Student
To Succeed program, which helps disadvan
taged students improve their reading.
HOSTS uses volunteer tutors to enhance
the reading skills of second- through fifth-
graders in seven Bryan elementary schools.
Marcie Spence, coordinator for Crockett
Elementary School in Bryan, said each
school will require 200 volunteers.
“We need volunteers, and we need Ag
gies,” Spence said.
The program is based on the concept that
children who are given personal, specific in
struction develop a comfortable relationship
with their tutors.
Sandra Davis, director for compensatory
learning for the Bryan Independent School
District, said half of the program’s volun
teers are Texas A&M students.
The majority of volunteers come from
campus organizations, sororities or
businesses.
F'unding for the program comes from Title
I of the federal education law, which pro
vides monetary support for academically
challenged public school students.
Qualified students are tested, evaluated and
entered into the HOSTS computer database.
Then, a personalized lesson plan is de
signed for each child.
Judy Sweat, a sales specialist with the
HOSTS Corporation, said she supports the
program.
“I think it’s great, because the kids that
need help are getting help through the
school district,” Sweat said.
Volunteers are asked to dedicate 30 min
utes a week with a child, teaching recoi>
mended skills through the use of flash cari
or educational games.
The classes are not held during the Uni
versity’s Thanksgiving break and end
fall semester classes are over. The spri
classes do not interfere with spring break,
The tutors build up the students’coi
dence, Spence said, because the children
ten look up to A&M students.
“[The program) does a lot for the
self esteem,” she said. “They really thinkAj
gies are cool.”
The program was created in 1971
William Gibbons, an elementary teacher
Vancouver, Wash. The program blossom
from one class into a $6.5 million-a-yearo
poration catering to the needs of 42,000
dents in 700 schools in 38 states.
Although the program is used only
elementary students in Bryan, it is
signed for middle and high school students
as well.
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□ Hispanic-rights
groups and bilingual
education advocates
denounced Dole's
conservative planks.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Re
publican presidential frontrun
ner Bob Dole’s support for mak
ing English the nation’s official
language and criticism of bilin
gual education are drawing fire
from Hispanic-rights groups
and educators.
“There is no problem in
terms of Americans of all per
suasions and from all different
ethnic groups understanding
the importance of learning Eng
lish,” National Council of La
Raza president Raul Yzaguirre
said Tuesday. “So it’s a manu
factured problem and it’s a
manufactured issue designed to
appeal to the prejudices and
the resentments of a group of
conservatives in this country.”
A day earlier, during an ap
pearance before the American
Legion in Indianapolis, Dole
announced his support for mak
ing English the country’s offi
cial language.
“If we want to ensure that
all our children have the same
opportunities in life, alterna
tive language education should
stop and English should be ac
knowledged once and for all as
the official language of the
United States,” said Dole, who
is Senate majority leader.
Several GOP presidential
contenders already support the
official English drive, including
conservative television com
mentator Pat Buchanan, Cali
fornia Gov. Pete Wilson and
Sen. Dick Lugar, R-Ind.
Dole’s closest rival, Sen. Phil
Gramm of Texas, hasn’t yet de
clared his position. “We will
wait to see what (Dole) propos
es,” said Gramm’s press secre
tary, Larry Neal. “Sometimes
what he has to propose doesn’t
quite match with what he has
to say, whether it’s in English
or any other language.”
On the matter of bilingual
education, Gramm’s position
parallels Dole’s.
“It has been my longtime po
sition that bilingual education
should be used only as the basis
for teaching children to speak
and write in English,” Gramm
said Tuesday.
Backers of the official
lish drive contend the measure
would encourage more immi
grants to learn English and al
low them to assimilate more
easily into American society.
Critics argue that official Eng
lish laws, endorsed by 22 statesto
date, constitute immigrant-
ing and foster discrimination.
Texas Gov. George W. Bush,
Republican, doesn’t support ofl
cial English legislation, said
spokesman Ray Sullivan.
Nearly 422,000 students
Texas public schools during the
1993-1994 school year were
identified as having only limit
ed English proficiency, accord
ing to Texas Education Agency
statistics.
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Texas residents are illegal aliens.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Nearly one of every 10
people living in Texas in 1994 was born out
side the United States, according to a new
U.S. Census Bureau report.
The 9.9 percent of Texans who were for
eign-born exceeds the 8.7 percent national
average, the highest since World War II.
About 75 percent of those 1.8 million im
migrant Texans had not yet become natural
ized citizens, the report said.
The growth in the percentage of foreign-
born Texans is accelerating. Since 1970, 1.5
million people born in other countries have
poured into Texas, most from Mexico and El
Salvador, most settling in the state’s bigger
metropolitan areas.
The census figures reflect changes in im
migration law that began with the passage
of the Immigration Act of 1965, which made
it easier for immediate family members of
recent immigrants to enter the country.
The Immigration Reform and Control Act
of 1986, intended to staunch the flow of ille
gal immigrants, actually fueled the numbers
of foreign-born Americans. In one fell swoop,
it granted amnesty to about 400,000 previ
ously illegal immigrants living in Texas
since 1982.
. “And right now, the most significant
change in law that is affecting immigration
is the Immigration Act of 1990, which basi
cally made it much easier for the extended
relatives of current residents to immigrate
into the U.S.,” said state demographer Steve
Murdock of Texas A&M University.
“Not just children and spouses can enter
more easily now, but fathers, mothers and
other family members.”
California was home to 7.7 million for
eign-born residents in 1994 — more than a
third of all immigrants to the United States
and nearly a quarter of the state population.
Texas ranked fourth as home to 8 percent
of the nation’s immigrants.
Nearly 1.2 million Texas residents were
born in Mexico, and another 110,000 listed
El Salvador as their place of birth.
While census officials made no effort to
question people about their legal status,
they estimate 4 million of the 22.6 million
foreign-born U.S. residents in March 1994
were here illegally.
If that 17.7 percent is applied to the
Texas number of foreign-born, that would
mean 318,600 were illegal immigrants.
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