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About 20% of New Jersey's public school students come from homes where English is not the primary language, and about two-thirds of them speak Spanish. The state's school districts with ten or more English-language learners are required to provide them with an ESL program, and those with 20 students with the same native language must create a bilingual program for them. Currently, bilingual programs exist for speakers of diverse languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Polish, and Arabic. Read the Asbury Park Press article at

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