Buried
on page 166 of the
Appropriations Committee report accompanying the $ 105 - billion spending bill for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education was a statement of support for the flexibility that Mr. Bennett seeks in the bilingual - education program — which now mandates use of the transitional method, in which non-English-speaking students receive some
instruction in their native language.
This disappointing result was because
appropriations were never sufficient to realize the large - scale impact envisioned by Johnson, the desire to focus extra aid
on the most educationally needy students isolated them from other
instruction, and the schools targeted for aid were often staffed by less experienced teachers.