UPDATE 4/12/2010: APANO Press Release Supporting Bilingual/Bicultural Staff PDF
PPS is proposing to eliminate 33% of the bilingual workforce in the form of 23 educational assistants.  PPS is pitting bilingual assistants vs ELL teachers, who may not be bilingual/bicultural.  APANO is calling our community and allies to turn out on Monday April [...]

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APANO’s Board of Directors appointed Eugene area Board Member Melissa “Mimi” Nolledo to facilitate the writing and submission of a community response to the tasering of a University of Oregon international student from China on September 22, 2009.  The following commentary was published in the Oregonian, Eugene Register-Guard, University of Oregon Daily Emerald,and submitted to [...]

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