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Thanks to $3 million donated by a parent of a child in a bilingual school, opponents of a Nov. 5 Colorado ballot initiative to curtail bilingual education are flooding the airwaves with messages opposing the proposal.
The parent, Pat Stryker of Fort Collins, Colo., gave the sum to English Plus, the coalition fighting the anti-bilingual-- education proposal, in the hope that her daughter's school-- Harris Bilingual Immersion School in Fort Collins-would stay open, said Steve Welchert, a consultant for English Plus.
Like initiatives already passed in California and Arizona, the Colorado proposal,...