Debate on Unz

Feb. 1, 2000

Each student is assigned a "role" as a 227 stakeholder. see below. All of these stakeholders are being brought together in a "debate" prior to the election in Arizona regarding a Prop. 227 clone. We will moderate. Each person needs to think about the following questions that they might be asked to address:

1. Does a one size fits all approach, abandoning bilingual, make educational sense?

2. Does Unz program satisfy prong 1 of Casteneda?

3. Is a "good working Knowledge of English" enough?

4. Is it educationally sound to place children of different ages in the same classroom?

5. Is a catch up program legally/educationally sound?

6. Are teachers free speech rights compromised?

7. What about content knowledge?

8. Where is the prong 3, monitoring, component?

Etc., etc.

Stakeholders:

  1. Ron Unz

  2. Alice Callaghan

  3. Rosalie Porter

  4. Linda Chavez

  5. Gloria Tuchman

  6. Jaime Escalante

  7. Rep. of School Bds Asssn

  8. School Admins Assn

  9. CTA

  10. PTA

  11. NRC

  12. META

  13. NABE

  14. N. Sekhon

  15. Sen. Deidre Alpert

  16. Jim Crawford

  17. Stephen Krashen

  18. US Dept of Ed Spokesperson

  19. Council of Great City Schools

  20. Media alliance