But about 5 months later, the decision was reversed on the grounds that, in the eyes of the
Spanish system, McBride did not hold a master's degree or a Ph.D. «The forwarded documentation,» said the official rejection letter, «has not gone through any of the two legal processes, neither of homologation nor of recognition, for the mentioned title to be valid in Spain, neither for
academic nor for professional purposes.»
Back in 1996, Callaghan organized 70
Spanish - speaking immigrant parents, who boycotted the Ninth Street Elementary School — calling for an end to failed bilingual - education methods and instead demanding that the school
system teach the children of immigrant garment workers
academic English as soon as possible.