In the bluest of blue states, here is liberalism on the ground (from "Latino Parents Speaking Out on Bilingual Education Failures," by Samuel G. Freedman, the New York Times, July 14).(immigrants' criticism of bilingual education )(Brief Article)

* In the bluest of blue states, here is liberalism on the ground (from "Latino Parents Speaking Out on Bilingual Education Failures," by Samuel G. Freedman, the New York Times, July 14): "On a sultry night in late June, when the school term was nearly over, two dozen parents gathered in a church basement in Brooklyn to talk about what a waste the year had been. Immigrants from Mexico and the Dominican Republic, raising their children in the battered neighborhood of Bushwick ... they condemned a system that consigned their children to a linguistic ghetto, cut off from the United States of integration and upward mobility.... 'I'm very angry,' Ms. [Benerita] Salsedo said in Spanish through an ...