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Download full textSilva, Helga – 1985
This report describes the impact on the Dade County, Florida, public school system of the 125 Cuban (and some Haitian) refugees arriving in the Mariel exodus. In September 1980 the school system had to absorb 13,000 new refugee students. Preparing for the students included hiring many bilingual teachers, reopening schools that had closed,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Teachers, Cubans
