Puerto Rico balks at Trump’s proposal to require English at Head Start centres
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP): The only English words four-year-old Alaisha Sandoval knows are courtesy of Peppa Pig, but that could soon change. The Trump administration is proposing that Head Start programmes teach exclusively in English, rejecting the federal early-childhood program’s practice of incorporating the languages students speak at home. Alaisha’s father, Hansel Alejandro Sandoval, smiled when he heard the news: The policy, he said, would help open his daughter’s world.
