11.   Even supporters concede it soon became entrenched as a way to pay the salaries of thousands of bilingual teachers and administrators.

12.   Even in big cities like New York, there are bilingual teacher shortages, and so immersion may sometimes be more practical.

13.   Finally, some question whether a district that is already struggling to staff schools with qualified bilingual teachers can expect to implement a top-notch language maintenance program.

14.   Fort Worth educators also get stipends in math, special education, science, technology and for certification as bilingual teachers.

15.   He was at the California Association for Bilingual Education Conference this weekend, looking for badly needed bilingual teachers.

16.   Houston has also been scouring Mexico for bilingual teachers.

17.   I became a bilingual teacher because I wanted to make sure our language and our culture are honored in the school system.

18.   In a typical classroom exchange, the Russian bilingual teacher asks students to name an imaginary dog.

19.   Immersion programs are also needed because there are too few qualified bilingual teachers, especially with immigrants now dispersed nationwide in service and manufacturing jobs.

20.   In an educational system lacking bilingual teachers, that is an automatic sentence to schools for the mentally retarded and a life on the margins.