City to cut bilingual education

City to cut bilingual education

Yawu Miller

Proposed budget cuts to the Boston Public School's bilingual program could deprive non English speaking children of the chance to receive a decent education, leaders in the Latino community charge.

"This could be devastating," said Ubaldo Lebron, a senior coordinator in the Boston Public Schools' bilingual program. "There will be no voice for bilingual education at the decision-making level. There will be no person who will advocate for bilingual programs."

Boston School Committee member Felix Arroyo said the cuts, proposed by school Superintendent Thomas Payzant for the 1999 budget, would gut the system's …