LABE GOALS
* Promote Bilingual-Bicultural
Education as a sound educational process, offering students of limited English proficiency the opportunity to learn through
their home, dominant or first language while learning to function successfully in English.
* Support programs
that encourage learning other languages for knowledge and enrichment.
* Encourage, recognize and publicize excellence
in Bilingual Education.
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Promote efforts to assure the provision of equal education opportunities for all, working toward the recognition by legislative
bodies and school districts of linguistic and cultural needs of their education.
* Promote the development of professional competence and professional
standards in Bilingual Education.
* Promote and publicize workshops,
conferences and higher education courses.
* Advocate for the needs of the language minority children and
their families to ensure their Bilingual-Bicultural Education.
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