41.   After having trouble recruiting bilingual teachers, the city started a program that sends teachers to the University of Monterrey in Mexico for summer classes in language and culture.

42.   But the principal of Commodore Stockton Elementary School insisted that his campus needed a bilingual teacher and Yu was hired, a first for San Francisco.

43.   He and the other Russian-speaking children were grouped in a classroom with a bilingual teacher.

44.   James Yapias of the Utah Office of Hispanic Affairs said the growing Hispanic population should lead to the hiring of more bilingual teachers in already crowded public schools.

45.   Principal Marcia Jackman needed bilingual teachers and hired some Spanish-speaking candidates even though they did not have teaching permits.

46.   The National Education Association says Maryland has gone to India, California to the Philippines and New York City to Austria for bilingual teachers.

47.   The school system also started recruiting bilingual teachers, who have been difficult to find.