In Boston, one family struggles with English immersion
In 2013, Massachusetts voters approved a ballot referendum requiring public schools to teach English by immersion, a system in which immigrant students spend a year learning almost entirely in English before moving to mainstream classrooms.
Massachusetts, the first state to introduce a bilingual education law in 1971, was the third in the nation to see it abolished by voters, after California in 1998 and Arizona in 2000.
This series I did for the Boston Globe followed one Mexican-American family through the first year of English-only, a year of struggle and shifting family dynamics.