Puerto Ricans in the Continental United States: An Uncertain Future : a Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights

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The Commission, 1976 - 157 sider

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Side 12 - The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress.
Side 102 - English and, to the extent necessary to allow a child to progress effectively through the educational system, the native language of the children of limited English-speaking ability, and such instruction is given with appreciation for the cultural heritage of such children, and, with respect to elementary school instruction, such instruction shall, to the extent necessary, be in all courses or subjects of study which will allow a child to progress effectively through the educational system...
Side 130 - The two principal Federal loan programs are the National Direct Student Loan program (NDSL, formerly the National Defense Student Loan Program) and the Guaranteed Student Loan program, authorized by the Higher Education Act of 1965. State Aid: In fiscal year 1973, the 50 States spent an estimated $348 million for undergraduate student aid in the form of scholarships and grants, plus a substantial sum for guaranteed and direct loans, tuition waivers and reductions, and various restricted grants to...
Side 135 - US Commission on Civil Rights, In Search of a Better Life: The Education and Housing Problems of Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia (Jan.
Side 145 - The Commission's overall conclusion is that mainland Puerto Ricans generally continue mired in the poverty facing first generations of all immigrant or migrant groups. Expectations were that succeeding generations of mainland Puerto Ricans would have achieved upward mobility. One generation later, the essential fact of poverty remains little changed. Indeed, the economic situation of the mainland Puerto Ricans has worsened over the last decade. "The United States has never before had a large migration...
Side 48 - ... and those individuals under 65 who are not heads of households and earn less than $56 per week in a fulltime job; (iv) half the number of "non-participants...
Side 15 - The assurance of the permanence and irrevocability of the union between the United States and Puerto Rico on the basis of common citizenship, common defense, common currency, free market, common loyalty to the values of democracy, and of such other conditions as may be considered, in the compact, of mutual benefit to the United States and Puerto Rico.
Side 114 - Basic English skills are at the very core of what these public schools teach. Imposition of a requirement that, before a child can effectively participate in the educational program, he must already have acquired those basic skills is to make a mockery of public education. We know that those who do not understand English are certain to find their classroom experiences wholly incomprehensible and in no way meaningful.
Side 102 - program of bilingual education" means a program of instruction, designed for children of limited English-speaking ability in elementary or secondary schools, in which, with respect to the years of study to which such program is applicable...
Side 125 - CUNY system), $1 1 per credit hour at Loop Community College (part of the City College of Chicago), $21 per credit hour at Essex County Community College in Newark, and $242 per semester at Philadelphia Community College. But not all needy students have access to such low-cost institutions. Shortage of Colleges in the Cities: A shortage of colleges in large cities reduces the opportunities for Puerto Ricans and other low-income students, who can only afford to attend if they live at home. In 1970...

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