1.   And students who graduate from bilingual programs in the LAUSD score higher on standardized tests than the district norm, she said.

2.   As the board members began discussing the total abolition of bilingual programs last summer, the fact that all of them are non-Hispanic whites aroused suspicion.

3.   Bilingual programs affect Latinos more than any other ethnic group in the state.

4.   Bilingual programs are often ghettos of poor instruction.

5.   Boudreux denies that funds will be siphoned from any other bilingual programs, but said she intends to push to receive state and federal funds.

6.   A proposed bilingual program for children from kindergarten through fifth grade was killed even before it started.

7.   According to supporters and opponents of bilingual education, Ninth Street Elementary School exemplifies the failure of bilingual programs.

8.   But bilingual supporters also concede that many bilingual programs have been hampered by bureaucratic snafus and a lack of trained teachers.

9.   But Cardenas claims the failure has been to give bilingual programs the resources they need to succeed.

10.   But in some school districts, parents have rejected bilingual programs en masse.